Divamensch

I saw Emily - No Prisoner Be at Carnegie Hall on Feb 19, 2026. My dear friends Martha and Bill had seen it in Madison the week before and raved about it. Martha told me it was playing at Carnegie Hall, I happened to be available, I bought a ticket in the balcony for $40, I was there. It's a new piece by Kevin Puts, settings of Emily Dickinson poems. It being billed as "a theatrical song cycle" - - for me it exists somewhere between a concert and an opera. It's an opera becau

My brother Howard alerted to me to death of Tom Noonan. I asked him to write about him: Tom Noonan died on Valentine's Day. He was 74 years old. Tom played Tilden in the original Off Broadway cast of Sam Shepard's Pulitzer winning play Buried Child . His tall, wiry frame, intense gaze and quiet, menacing style garnered dozens of remarkable roles in the following decades. Heaven's Gate, F/X, Manhunter, Last Action Hero ... he was even in Gloria and Mystery Train . In 1994 he