Culture

Readers will recognize Ray O'Hanlon's name as that of the editor of this paper but he's hoping that, over time, his name will become as familiar on...

"A Minister's Wife" • Adapted from George Bernard Shaw's "Candida" by Austin Pendleton (Book), Joshua Schmidt (music) Jan Levy Tranen (lyrics) • Li...

Unofficially, it's summertime, and the living is--if not exactly easy--easier. A sure way to keep the creep of the summertime blues away is to play...

Some writers of popular fiction crave critical respectability, while others don't care and laugh all the way to the bank. I don't know which catego...

“Ivan and the Dogs” By Hattie Naylor • Directed by David Sullivan and produced by George C.Heslin • Origin Theatre Company at Players Loft Theatre,...

Two vital mainstays of presenting top-flight live traditional music have retired or will soon retire. Robert Browning, 70, retired this past May 13...

[Glen Hansard will be on stage with Joseph O'Connor on Saturday. PHOTOCALL] Between the Lines / By Peter McDermott "Just how important is the fact ...

“The Mother** With the Hat” By Stephen Adly Guirgis • Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, 236 West 45th St., NYC • Open-Ended Run) As an active member of th...

Irma Rivera grew up in the East Village of Manhattan in a Puerto Rican family, was schooled in the City, and joined the ranks of the NYPD in 1982 a...

I attended a conference relating to the Irish language in University of Notre Dame last week. It was my first time there and I was really taken wit...

In February, something unusual happened that received scant notice in the mainstream press: the worst sales total in SoundScan history for an album...

Within a couple years of their immigration in 1980 to Portland, Ore., I saw former Bothy Band members Kevin Burke on fiddle and Micheal O Domhnaill...