Writing
Make Way for midge maisel
Confluence
Picture New York City in the 1950s: vintage cars with the same dirty streets and rat problem you love to hate. Imagine you walk around downtown’s maze-like streets and can’t help but go into a dingy comedy club, the sound of laughter spilling out of it. Between the stench of Cuban cigars and whiskey, you can’t decide if you should cough from secondhand smoke or join in but take a seat anyway—only for a drunk lady to kvetch and flash the audience before being whisked away by the police. Well, what if I told you this woman was not a lady of the night, but rather an abandoned housewife who turns her misfortune into a comedy career?
'Somewhere Over the Rainbow’ Pleads for a More Accepting World
Washington Square News
Seconds before the clock struck eight, panic filled the family room as my dad struggled to set up the live stream for what would be a revolutionary event: the Saturday Night Passover Seder.
Stephen Sondheim:
a legend who lives on
Washington Square News
A few days have passed since composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim’s sudden death at age 91, and I am still struggling to make sense of my grief. I grew up with Sondheim. I sang “Rose’s Turn” around my kitchen. I danced to “West Side Story.” I decided that “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” was my favorite musical at the ripe age of 10. The eight-time Tony Award winner’s music eased my worries and taught me what it means to be alive in a world like ours. Knowing that the man behind the American musical will no longer get behind a grand piano, I am left with questions.​
What It Means to Be an Artist in Our New World
Washington Square News
What does it mean to be an artist? To some, an artist has to paint a picture, sing a song or bust a move. To others, an artist has to have their name shouted by thousands of adoring fans or written in a playbill. While these conceptions are mainstream and often accurate, I cannot help but challenge how unnecessarily rigid such associations are.
