Culture

Wilder’s classic Our Town gets 21st century treatment—Race, class, and all

August 3, 2021 By Ed Rampell

In 'The Last, Best Small Town', playwright John Guerra has adapted Thornton Wilder’s 1938 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, resetting the turn-of-the-last-century Grover’s Corner, New Hampshire at turn-of-the-21st-century Fillmore, California.

Battle for the soul of popular media: COVID, Cannes, and conglomerates

August 2, 2021 By Dennis Broe

What Cannes tell us about the future of watching film in theaters, on TVs and on computers.

‘Shuggie Bain’, tale of Scottish working-class life under Thatcherism, wins Booker Prize

July 30, 2021 By Jenny Farrell

Alcoholism and its effect on people and communities is explored from the perspective of a loving and protective child, who observes all the secrecies, shame, and suicidal self-hate it brings.

‘Summer of Soul,’ a look back at the pulsating 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival

July 23, 2021 By Anthony Mangos

Music scene of the late sixties and early seventies was a zenith for the many styles of which African were a part.

Links between domestic civil rights and anti-colonial struggles explored in new book

July 22, 2021 By Tony Pecinovsky

Though primarily focused on the period after World War II, the book explores the earlier period too.