Metro, “Who you gonna call? A real-life ghostbuster”

“The history of spiritualism in America ties into the history of the suffragette movement, the abolition movement, the labor movement, the anarchist movement,” says Hendrix. “So many people get hung up on the question of whether these mediums were actually talking to spirits or committing fraud, but if you ignore that question you’re still left […]

KQED (Bay Area), “Cirque Du Soleil and Kinetic Arts Fall Deep Into the Dark Pleasures Of Circus”

The show starts with a full cast dance number and when the performers stand before us, you realize that artistic director Jaron Hollander’s notion of the circus is much closer to theater than is Cirque du Soleil’s. Here, we’re confronted with character types, not categories of performers. There’s an angry teen, an anarchist punk, a conservative […]