music The classic joke about old-time music is that it’s better than it sounds. The same goes for singer/songwriter and former Modern Lovers frontman Jonathan Richman. Richman’s occasionally shaky voice, nervous onstage personality—after 30 years of performing, he almost seems comfortable with it—and straightforward guitar strumming betray a more polished and capable performer beneath the […]

stage Because most theater-goers will not be immediately familiar with the discrepancies between the three printed versions of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet—the first quarto (1603), second quarto (1604) and folio (1623)—Ralph Alan Cohen, executive director of Staunton’s American Shakespeare Center, runs the risk of alienating his audience by staging the arcane and rarely produced first quarto […]