We can hear the wheels of his imagination whirling… His eyes are wide open, and yet as he talks to us they seem to get wider still… We conjure him making small mini-gasps with each of his discoveries… This is actor David zum Brunnen as Charles Dickens, at work in his study in the wee hours of the morning.He is piecing together his famed A Christmas...

​Be among the first to experience American choreography's newest creative shoots... ​European dance enthusiasts visiting America might want to put two sources of American choreography on their radar— the North Carolina-based American Dance Festival and New York's CUNY Dance Initiative. Every summer Duke University hosts the American Dance Fest...

Where better to park an expansive collection of Banksy art than in the wild beating heart of consumerist USA.​ ​To a European, and especially a Brit, it might seem odd to think of going to New York City to discover more about home boy Banksy.Then again, where better to park an expansive collection of Banksy art than in the wild beating heart of con...

A small cottage industry of Paris comedy shows in English helps tourists laugh at themselves and Parisians both. How archaic to think of women traveling to Paris getting a new bouffant hairdo and Chanel suit in order to fit in.Long gone are the days when an American in Paris had to fret that their travel trousseau, accent or sneakers would elicit s...

​You are well rewarded for making your way to the theater to see PATRIOTS. The script, tells the timely tale of Putin's rise to power and how the kleptocracy of post-Soviet Russia came to be... You walk through the commotion of Times Square to get to the Barrymore Theatre to see British playwright Peter Morgan's PATRIOTS.The perfect weather of an e...

​ Église Saint-Paul – Saint Louis, Sainte-Chapelle, Saint-Germain-des-Prés -- the concerts in these historic cathedrals are sublime ​Wherever there are tourists in Paris — and where are there not?— you will see posters advertising one or more concerts in the city's historic cathedrals.Dismissing these out of hand as dumbed-down made-for-tourists fa...