Culture
Majority Latina cast and crew in world premiere play ‘Alma’
March 15, 2022It has been a coming of age story all along—and really, what else would it be?
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Filmic gifts of Gugu: ‘Fast Color’ and ‘The Girl Before’
March 10, 2022One can only hope that Gugu will continue to use her extraordinary gifts, gracing our screens to advance such causes and further our understanding and action.
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‘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.
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Expressions 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.
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Guilty 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...
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