Articles by Mike Boehm

The rehearsal had yet to begin, and already it was jarringly clear that “For All Time,” Cornerstone Theater Company’s wide-ranging exploration of the criminal justice system, takes place in another world from the televised realm of “Law & Order,” where bloodshed and bereavement can be softened and held at arm’s length with a simple disclaimer: “The following story is fictional and does not depict any actual person or event.” Read more

Pine forests must shudder at Ilan Stavans’ very name. Read more

A no-show actor, singer or soloist at a performance can throw things into disarray. Read more

Unprecedented spending is the Bush administration’s plan to avoid the worst or something like it in the American economy. Read more

SINCE THE Museum of Tolerance opened in 1993, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Rwanda and Darfur have been inscribed in the book of mass extermination. Read more

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation has been Exhibit A of museums-on-the-go during the expansionist and sometimes boundary-pushing and populist tenure of director Thomas Krens. Read more

New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has ended the highest-profile art world search in recent memory by choosing one of its own curators, Thomas P. Campbell, to succeed departing director Philippe de Montebello. Read more

“JERSEY BOYS,” the show, came off well for the La Jolla Playhouse. Read more

Fascination with the “new” China may be at a sustained peak with the Beijing Olympics, but the Terra Cotta warriors, famous emissaries from old China, are standing on their own in Orange County. Read more