Culture
‘A Death-Defying Escape!’ magically combines Jewish humor, lesbian romance, disability awareness
April 6, 2022Perhaps if there’s a single message Carter is trying to leave with her audience, it could be reduced to this quote from the show, addressed to the audience: “Live your life, people! It passes so quickly.”
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Hundreds rally to support Philadelphia Museum of Art workers’ contract fight
April 5, 2022They’ve been trying to negotiate a contract for almost two years, but the museum is still dragging its feet.
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For artist Alice Neel, people always came first
April 4, 2022Virtually ignored for much of her early career, Alice Neel’s life and work are beacons for socially conscious artists, especially women.
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L.A.’s Dodger Stadium should not exist!
April 1, 2022“The story of Dodger Stadium has been condensed and mythologized. It has become—with good reason—like a fable. The real history is less like a fable and more like the story of a crime that Los Angeles...
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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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