[ Michael Bowen ]
Bio:

Michael Bowen is a senior writer for The Inlander and a respected local theater critic. He also covers literature, jazz and classical music, and art, among other things. Since 2005, he has authored Stage Thrust, a local theater blog.

Blank Slate

Your friend has ridiculous taste. Do you correct him? Or do you preserve your friendship?

Michael Bowen
| Wednesday, March 17, 2010

'The Lost Books of the Odyssey,' Zachary Mason

Imagine The Odyssey squeezed through an M.C. Escher grinder — the resulting sausage doesn’t look heroic.

Michael Bowen
| Thursday, March 11, 2010

Classical Punk

What happens when you just wanna dance, and can’t? Or when you just wanna listen?

Michael Bowen
| Thursday, March 11, 2010

Bardcore

When amps collided with iambic pentameter, the Metal Shakespeare Company was born

Michael Bowen
| Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Big Hair, Big Laughs

In laughing and crying, in camaraderie and tragedy, the Civic’s six-woman ensemble mostly succeeds in Steel Magnolias

Michael Bowen
| Thursday, March 4, 2010

Ascetic Love

The Last Station, covering the final year of Tolstoy’s life, highlights the struggle between natural impulses and restraint

Michael Bowen
| Thursday, March 4, 2010

Make a Joyful Noise

Jazz vocalist Dee Daniels leads a gospel choir at Moscow’s Lionel Hampton Festival

Michael Bowen
| Thursday, February 25, 2010

Knotted Verse

Rick Kenney writes challenging poems. So let yourself be challenged

Michael Bowen
| Thursday, February 25, 2010

Oohs and Oz

The conductor will keep the Spokane Symphony all synced up. You just concentrate on getting Dorothy back to Kansas

Michael Bowen
| Friday, February 19, 2010

Some Other Films

At a Whitworth film festival, define yourself against the values of Syrian musicians, war-ravaged Israelis and Hindu gods

Michael Bowen
| Friday, February 19, 2010
 
 
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