arts and culture
Songs of Argentina fill new album with bass-baritone Federico De Michelis
October 12, 2023Argentina’s rich musical world is often subsumed, and so wrongly, under the single word “tango.” There’s so much more.
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‘Tacos La Brooklyn’ centers cultural identity: Who appreciates and who appropriates?
October 6, 2023The playwright asks us to examine our view of family, interracial dynamics, cultural appropriation, gentrification, and the pros and cons of the street venture scene all the while immersing us in a distinctly Los Angeles social...
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‘The Nine Lives of Barbara Dane’ and ‘I Hate the Capitalist System’
September 25, 2023The Nine Lives of Barbara Dane is not just the story of a life well lived. It is the chronicle of one woman’s answer.
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Drama ‘Blood at the Root’ explores the background to the Jena Six case
September 22, 2023“This story is inspired by a series of incidents, media reporting, and social action in Jena, Louisiana, in 2007.”
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‘The Right Is Ours!’ musicalizes the early suffrage movement in America
September 21, 2023A world premiere engagement of The Right is Ours!, a new musical about two women who were founders of the women’s suffrage movement.
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