Laurie Anderson's Homeland returned home to the States this past weekend, after a few weeks' tour of South America, with a performance at the Lied Center on the Kansas University campus in Lawrence. Reviewing the show for the Lawrence Journal-World & News, Chuck Berg, a professor of theater and film at the University, says it was "an extraordinary concert." He reports: "Her striking words and music elicited a spontaneous and deeply felt standing ovation at the end of an intermission-less tour of hard-hitting cultural and political commentaries."

Anderson's latest piece, says Berg, "struck musical and cultural notes rarely pursued with such vigor by preening mainstream celebrity journalists." She was able to do so "with wit as well as with a broad and penetrating sense of wisdom. That kept her 1,000-plus fans at the Lied Center, both young and old, at their edge of their musical, emotional and intellectual seats for more than 90 minutes ..."

Berg concludes:

Homeland, by cinematizing words and music directed to the most salient and painful aspects of our overheated and polarized public policy, provided an open-ended common ground upon which to construct a perhaps more thoughtful political discourse addressing both national assets and, significantly, liabilities.

To read the full concert review, visit ljworld.com.

Laurie performs Homeland tonight at the Philips Center for the Performing Arts in Gainseville, Florida. For more tour dates, visit nonesuch.com/on-tour.