Culture
‘The Lehman Trilogy’: Epic theater traces a finance family’s 160-year history
March 9, 2022One doesn’t have to admire these people, except for the sheer brilliance of their heartless audacity, to recognize The Lehman Trilogy as one of the most significant plays of our time.
Read moreExpressions of African-American music on CD—and all that jazz
March 7, 2022Jazz is widely recognized as perhaps the only musical art form originating in the United States, thanks largely to its African-American inventors.
Read moreGuilty before proven innocent: An interview with Mexican actor Axel Arenas
March 4, 2022MEXICO CITY—To many Americans, the world of Mexican cinema may be somewhat unknown outside of the realm of “narcoseries.” Fact check: Not all great Mexican cinema is rooted around the themes of drugs, immigration, violence, and...
Read moreThe ‘destructive prophets’ astride the field of history: Hitler was only one
March 3, 2022It took him many years to write his 466-page Hitler: Diagnosis of a Destructive Prophet because he made many trips to Germany in order to find and interview people who had known Hitler personally.
Read moreA re-radicalized Beethoven ‘Fidelio’ for the Black Lives Matter era
March 1, 2022SANTA MONICA, Calif. — A touring production of Ludwig van Beethoven’s only opera Fidelio has just ended its four-city tour in February, with stops at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the Mondavi...
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