Culture
Journeying in films, from Nigeria to North Korea
November 17, 2016When you have over 80 countries represented in a major film festival screening about 400 films, it’s not hard to find great cinema.
Read more“Waiting for Grace,” a controversial look at love and marriage
November 15, 2016“What if true love never happens? Or worse…what if it does?”
Read more“A Touch of the Poet”: Worthy staging of O’Neill drama
November 10, 2016The play is difficult and not fully rewarding, but the production is as much as one could ask for in the caliber of its brave actors who bring this problematic work to our attention.
Read more“Urinetown”: Disaster capitalism as a musical
November 7, 2016NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Urinetown: The Musical is a wicked, irreverent satire with broadly drawn characters from the world of melodrama. It tells an earnest tale of love, greed, corruption and revolution set in a not...
Read moreNew play asks, “Do clothes make or unmake the man?”
November 4, 2016This satirical dark comedy is a modern-day interpretation of “The Emperor’s New Clothes."
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