Culture
‘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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‘King Lear’: The monarch from another planet
May 19, 2022Of 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!
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ICYMI: May 5 was the World Day of the Portuguese Language and Marx
May 18, 2022May 5 was the World Day of the Portuguese Language and the anniversary of Karl Marx’s birth. So I am left with this difficult impasse: between the two fundamentals, what to do?
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