Culture
‘In the Heat of the Night’ on radio and streaming free
June 11, 2020The L.A. Theatre Works audio theater recording of John Ball’s In the Heat of the Night, adapted for the stage by Matt Pelfrey, will air on radio stations across the country.
Read more‘The Vote’: As if our lives depended on it, then and now
June 11, 2020The Vote, writer-director Michelle Ferrari’s history of American women’s struggle to win the right to participate in elections, is more than an excellent comprehensive history.
Read more‘The Ascent’: 1970s Soviet film affirms deeply human values in dangerous times
June 10, 2020The Ascent is not the type of movie you would expect about World War II—or the Great Patriotic War, as it was known in the Soviet Union where the film was made.
Read moreBlack teenager shot by white cop: The play ‘Scraps’ for home viewing
June 9, 2020In a provocative mash-up of poetry, realism, and expressionism, Scraps boldly chronicles how the family and friends of a black teenager shot by a white police officer struggle to cope in the aftermath.
Read moreCharles Dickens put ordinary people at the heart of the story
June 8, 2020Dickens never forgot how his father was imprisoned for debts and that the financial circumstances of his family forced him to leave school at the age of 12 and work a 10-hour day in a blackening...
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