Culture
Playwright Lucas Hnath examines the idea of Walt Disney in West Coast premiere
March 30, 2022LOS ANGELES — It’s a long title for a short play about a big subject: Walt Disney. It’s A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney by Lucas Hnath, whose play...
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Philip Foner completes his multi-volume U.S. labor history with the Great Depression
March 29, 2022Once again, the distinguished late historian Philip S. Foner takes his readers on an intensive whirlwind study tour of the United States, back in time and across the land. Although in this new Volume 11 of...
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From Russia with lust: Tolstoy meets ‘Florida Man’ in ‘Anna in the Tropics’
March 28, 2022It’s also worth a word that at a time when Russia is engaged in such a tragedy, this Tolstoy-derived drama reminds us of the other side of Russian history and culture, of the literature and theater...
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March 25, 2022A poem by Chris Butters.
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‘Zoot Suit Riots’: Culture wars in wartime Los Angeles
March 25, 2022Tovares deftly weaves the context around the resulting social upheaval, helping us understand the moral ambiguities of Los Angeles’ corrupt government, notorious police force, get-rich-quick land development schemes, and the diverse population trying to emerge from...
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