Oh, there's so much misunderstanding," remarks a flustered Emily Gulick (Fayra Teeters) in Upstart Theatre's inaugural production of Joyce Carol Oates' multimedia play Tone Clusters. Seated next ...

Joyce Carol Oates' exploration of grief in the midst of TV media's glare comes to Topanga Canyon. By Myron Meisel Acclaimed novelist Joyce Carol Oates has also dabbled in writing for the stage ...

This revolutionary youth is the exponent of a brand of modernism in music which deals a great deal with “tone clusters.” A “tone cluster” is a group of adjacent notes played simultaneously.