[PopMatters] Frank London’s A Night in the Old Marketplace (based on I.L. Peretz) works only if you “abandon all hope of actually understanding what [you are] hearing, and just kind of groove on the songs.”
[Jesus in Love] Money quote from the exhibit Who Do You Say That I Am? Visions of Christ, Gender and Justice: “Yesterday’s scandal is today’s museum piece. Today’s scandal is tomorrow’s masterpiece.”
(Right) From the Scotsman’s review of Jihad: The Musical, which it credits with “a talented young cast from the US, with a pastiche-Broadway style soundtrack and an ample helping of wit.”
[St. Louis Post-Dispatch] When a church becomes a theater, efforts are made to preserve the religious art.
[Orange County Register] “If you have qualms about visiting an exhibition dominated by religious art, you probably shouldn’t go to ‘The Arts in Latin America, 1492-1820′ at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art,” writes Richard Chang. If you have such qualms, you aren’t reading Iconia enough.
And in other news, Anne Rice writes on Christianity and “dark literature”, “Bibles, crucifixes, Stars of David and other religious non-Islamic items” are now banned from Saudi Arabia (it’d be a shame if someone tried to take this one in) along with “narcotics, firearms and pornography” and Nick Salamone’s play “Hillary Agonistes” features a bible on Hillary’s desk.