Culture
The thick blue line: Killer cops in new Baltimore and Paris series
May 25, 2022There may be Black and White behind the Blue Line, but that line, as the series illustrates in almost every scene, is used to regulate and destroy all attempts at community.
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Baseball—and baseball books—are back!
May 24, 2022Now that what used to be called “Our National Pastime” is back, it’s time to look at several recently published books about the game.
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‘Metamorphoses’: Classic myths arise from a swimming pool for modern audience
May 23, 2022As a psychoanalyst notes, appearing onstage in a new production of Mary Zimmerman’s play Metamorphoses in a segment devoted to Apollo, “Myths are the earliest forms of science,” how to explain the otherwise inexplicable.
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‘Plague at the Golden Gate’: Public health and private ignorance
May 20, 2022Director Li-shin Yu’s scientific moral tale of the battle against Bubonic Plague in San Francisco over a century ago might as well be the story of Dr. Fauci’s heroic struggle against COVID-19.
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New opera ‘I Can’t Breathe’ centers murders of Black American males
May 20, 2022“It would be impossible to find a more relevant topic for contemporary theatre,” wrote Arts Knoxville when I Can’t Breathe received its first production back in February.
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