Culture
San Francisco Art Institute hosts Hollywood Blacklist festival and panel
March 28, 2019Starting in 1947, the FBI and U.S. government persecuted artists and activists, driving many into exile during the Hollywood Blacklist/McCarthyism Cold War era.
Read more‘Argonautika’: Ode on a Grecian epic (with togas!)
March 28, 2019Although it goes over the top and misses the boat at times, Argonautika is still well worth embarking on a voyage of discovery.
Read more‘Sobibor’ dramatizes a successful heroic revolt in a Nazi death camp
March 28, 2019In 2018, resistance fighters around the world commemorated the 75th anniversary of the famous Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
Read more‘The Elephant Man’ on stage: Being Human 101
March 27, 2019Overall, this fine Elephant Man is among the most moving meditations I’ve ever seen staged about the beauty within the beast and the human spirit.
Read moreRoald Dahl’s ‘Matilda,’ a feminist ode to teachers, dazzles as a musical
March 26, 2019The protagonist is a precocious 5-year-old girl with mystical psychic powers, a love of reading and a gift for wild, inventive storytelling, who overcomes the cruel fate of being born into a family of con-job masters...
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