Culture
‘Transformers One’ review: Exciting and heartfelt workers’ rebellion for the whole family
September 13, 2024'Transformers One' touches on several themes, like exploitation, friendship, corruption, and worker empowerment, in an engaging, entertaining, and fun way for the whole family.
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‘Their Example Will Inspire Us: Five Black Communist Women’: A book review
September 12, 2024Occasionally, historians publish new research that tries to correct the record, restore our memory, and affirm our heritage. One such effort is Melissa Ford’s latest work.
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‘Memnon’: Harlem comes to Malibu (ancient Black Lives Matter too)
September 12, 2024The approximately 80-minute one-act play can be a bit talky with lengthy monologues or soliloquies, although I imagine this may be how some Greek dramas were presented in those ancient amphitheaters under the starry Grecian skies...
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Two Civil War plays, two civil wars: ‘TH IR DS’ and ‘Civility of Albert Cashier’
September 11, 2024What if the South had won the Civil War?
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‘God Will Do the Rest’ introduces an idiosyncratic Filipino American immigrant family
September 11, 2024From his clever and wise writing in last year’s The Bottoming Process, I could tell Nicholas Pilapil would be one playwright to watch.
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