arts and culture
Social Democratic Vienna vs. ever more rapidly liberalizing Paris
March 14, 2025With European sovereignty under attack from Donald Trump and his national security plunderers, er, advisors—will Denmark eventually capitulate to the orange monster’s protection racket threat to take over Greenland?
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Little Tokyo hosts world premiere of opera ‘The Camp’ about Japanese-American internment
March 13, 2025Little Tokyo’s JACCC Aratani Theatre hosted the world premiere of a new opera, in English, about a Japanese-American family wrongfully placed in a concentration camp in 1942.
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‘The Actor’ review: Visually striking film with complex undertones
March 12, 2025It’s better than the overused critic term “a love letter to cinema”; instead, it is a beautifully honest letter to the human condition.
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Take me to your reader: ‘Don Quixote,’ ‘Daily Worker’ for Florida’s cigarmakers
March 10, 2025The production has elements of proletarian theater and uses Brechtian techniques. Ybor City is also imaginatively staged in cinematic ways, incorporating projections of waves, the moon, musicians and more, plus a montage at the end.
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‘Alabaster’: The physical scars are healed now, but how about the spirit?
March 10, 2025I am beginning to believe the Fountain Theatre is constitutionally infallible. I can’t think of a play I’ve seen here that hasn’t met the highest standards of artistry.
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