Don Quixote

Mark Mallman tour diary, Vol. 5

​I don't know about you, but usually the first thing I say in the morning is some inflection of the word "fuck." 

Man of La Mancha

Man of La Mancha

Man of La Mancha

Ten Thousand Things

Man of La Mancha

Hastings 3000 tour diary, Vol. 5

​One-man-masked-band Hastings 3000 is in the midst of his first tour, which has taken him out to the West Coast, Hawaii, and Japan. Here's the fifth installment of his tour diary (first installment here, second here, third here, fourth here). Check back over the next week for more updates from h ... More >>

CGI Ron Paul can survive a flood and keep talking

Strange Odyssey

Ibsen's 'Peer Gynt' isn't easy to stage, but the Guthrie turns this odd tale into a sprawling, dreamlike adventure

Robber Barons

Kanye Bests 50 Cent, But Is Either Album a Winner?

Artists of the Year

3 questions: Alan Shilepsky

Spotlight: Man of La Mancha

Basbanes's Bazaar

Who will buy a book about why we buy books?

6/17: Morning Communique

Quixotic Prexy

The Year in Music

The Sound of Music, 2001: Our Favorite Things

Cuba Libre

For 53 years, the Havana ballet company of Alicia Alonso has felt free to create an original form of classical dance

The Impossible Dream

Don Quixote de la Minny places Cervantes's dreamer in the North Country; A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking lives up to its name

P.O.'ed

Jean Sandberg asked her post-office bosses to put a stop to the penis jokes and the wet T-shirt invitations. They sent her complaint to the dead-letter office.

Once More, With Feeling

Watching Seinfeld six days a week makes one long for the golden age of syndication

Haunting the House

Enter the Fat Dragon

Defying American convention, HK film star Sammo Hung throws his heft at network television

Who's There

Who's That Knocking At My Door: Heidi Hunter Batz, Randal Berger, and Matt Guidry bring a barely contained chaos to Jules Feiffer's cartoon-cum-comedy, Knock Knock.