The ones that do make money don't make the producers or the people who have the original ideas rich.
A multi-dimensional contradiction, West tosses out rhyme-schemed similes that employ racial ideas rich with symbolism but often in service of harsh lyrics that suggests he either doesn't appreciate or care about original intent.
The play's main weakness, though, is that its big, sprawling, idea-rich script needs editing.
Let me interrupt this low-grade temper tantrum to offer the disclaimer that, yes, I do prize smart, inquisitive and idea-rich theater.
This band includes the pianist Frank Kimbrough, the bassist Ben Allison and the drummer Mike Mazur, all moving parts of the refreshingly idea-rich Jazz Composers Collective scene.
Each makes a physically reductive, idea-rich art from scraps of a consumer culture that for most of us constitutes everyday life.
The real subject of the work is American utopianism, a double-edged phenomenon that in Mr. Queenland's light-touch, idea-rich art retains its prickly complexity.
THE BAD PLUS "Made Possible" is the eighth studio album by the richly textured, dryly humorous, idea-rich jazz group who bow alternately toward Ornette Coleman, Nirvana and Stravinsky.
The result is a "thrilling and intellectually fearless" tale that "remains true to the idea-rich gothic melodrama of Shelley's novel," Benjamin Anastas wrote in these pages in 2003.
Still, for its occasional clunkiness of form, what a muscular, idea-rich dystopian adventure this has been, and what paradoxically steel-spined humanity Jennifer Lawrence has given its every chapter.
