Culture

Baseball—and baseball books—are back!

May 24, 2022 By Mickey Gallagher

Now that what used to be called “Our National Pastime” is back, it’s time to look at several recently published books about the game.

‘Metamorphoses’: Classic myths arise from a swimming pool for modern audience

May 23, 2022 By Eric A. Gordon

As 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.

‘Plague at the Golden Gate’: Public health and private ignorance

May 20, 2022 By Michael Berkowitz

Director 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.

New opera ‘I Can’t Breathe’ centers murders of Black American males

May 20, 2022 By Eric A. Gordon

“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.

‘King Lear’: The monarch from another planet

May 19, 2022 By Ed Rampell

Of the countless screen versions of King Lear, the most offbeat may be Jean Luc Godard’s 1987 take co-starring Woody Allen, Norman Mailer, and The Breakfast Club’s Molly Ringwald as Cordelia. I kid thee not!