Culture
A Sam Shepard double bill, a hilarious send-up of film conventions
January 28, 2020"This venerable mainstay of L.A.’s live stage scene is presenting the “Circa ’69” season, with revivals “of significant and adventurous plays."
Read more‘The Last Ship’ is a stunning masterpiece of working-class musical theatre
January 27, 2020Another self-conscious aspect of the musical genre that creeps in from time to time comes in some of the solos when singers default into crooning Broadway vocal production, particularly in the amorous, yearning songs.
Read more‘The East is Black: Cold War China in the Black Radical Imagination’
January 24, 2020Oppressed and exploited peoples seek allies where they can, domestically and internationally.
Read more‘Nowhere on the Border,’ an engrossing play on our conscience
January 24, 2020A soul-wrenching, laser-beamed treatment of the emotional and economic issues around cross-border migration from Mexico into the U.S. Southwest.
Read moreAuschwitz, a poem
January 24, 2020The United Nations General Assembly designated January 27—the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau—as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
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