Culture
How It’s Gon’ Be’: A young Black artist starts figuring it out
September 29, 2023LOS ANGELES — “I wanted to capture the heart of a young artist trying to figure out where he fits in,” playwright JuCoby Johnson explains. “These characters each have a deep love for one another that...
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‘This Is Not a True Story’ recapitulates anti-Asian micro-aggressions in purgatory
September 28, 2023LOS ANGELES — Western (i.e., Caucasian) artists have a seemingly irrepressible urge to fetishize, generalize, and stereotype all other cultures and people—Indigenous peoples, Asians, Latinos/as, Africans—and even some now regarded as “white” but who were once...
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‘El Conde’: Count Pinochet the Vampire!
September 28, 2023Academy Award-nominated Chilean director Pablo Larraín (Neruda, Jackie, No, Spencer) and his longtime collaborator writer Guillermo Calderón have just released their new film El Conde (The Count). It’s a robust, bawdy, very funny, slightly over-the-top reimagining...
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‘The Unknown Country’: An Indigenous woman’s road trip into Indian Country and beyond
September 27, 2023The viewer follows the travails of a young Indigenous woman on a thought-provoking road trip.
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Luis Alfaro’s new play ‘The Travelers’ melds raunchy humor with intense spirituality
September 26, 2023“We are all travelers, Brother. Our journeys take place inside.” If life happens to toss you on our doorstep, we will take care of you.
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