Sounding Off On Sound

There aren't a great many male playwrights who do well creating female characters of any dimension. In fact, the list of famous names is fairly short. After William Inge, Tennessee Williams, and August Wilson you have to scratch your head pretty hard to come up with more. Which makes it all the more fascinating that accomplished author Walter A. Davis (The Holocaust Memorial: A Play About Hiroshima, Trim: The Tiger Woods Story) is bringing his work back to the Twin Cities with the premiere of Aberration of Starlight: A Play About Emily Dickinson.

On April 8, just under 2,000 fans were happy as hell to see veteran singer-songwriter-guitarist Boz Scaggs stroll onto the State Theatre stage; they greeted their man with a cataract of cheers and applause.

Delphia Blize's West River acquits her as a lyricist's lyricist who can take the everyday occurrences in life and make magic of the mundane. And, actually, when it's happening to you, things like getting through a holiday, whether to spend the night with a lover, it can feel—though millions of others manage to do the deal with the same thing without the word coming to an end—like something of special consequence is going on.