Culture
New book surveys life of Seán O’Casey, great Irish playwright and lifelong communist
October 27, 2023While the study is an important one for O’Casey scholars to be aware of, it is refreshingly equally directed at readers beyond academia.
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W.E.B. Du Bois and Langston Hughes texts set to music by Margaret Bonds
October 26, 2023Textually and musically, we can be grateful that these stunning works can now be heard and appreciated.
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Reena Esmail and Philip Glass: Musical movers of heaven and earth
October 23, 2023Los Angeles Master Chorale is laudably not just about the grand old masterpieces of massed voices, but also about new music with the capacity to speak to today’s audiences.
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Native dramatist satirizes ‘woke’ pretensions in ‘The Thanksgiving Play’
October 20, 2023SANTA BARBARA, Calif.—What is to be done about Thanksgiving? What does it even mean anymore? How do we celebrate it? Should we at all? And most importantly, how do we teach it to our children? What...
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‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ weaves beauty and strength throughout a gruesome tale
October 19, 2023The plot is centered on a series of Oklahoma murders in the Osage Nation during the 1920s, committed after oil was discovered on tribal land.
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