arts and culture
REVIEW: Depressing ‘Beau is Afraid’ saved by biting, dark comedy and great performances
April 26, 2023If you’re looking for uplifting cinema, then Beau is Afraid will not be for you.
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Harry Belafonte—Giant of the arts and the struggle for justice and democracy
April 26, 2023Speaking of himself, Belafonte said he was “an activist who became an artist: I was not an artist who became an activist.”
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The real and reel Ava Gardner: What price celebrityhood?
April 25, 2023As a film historian, when I heard a bioplay was being mounted about silver screen siren Ava Gardner at one of L.A.’s finest theaters, the Geffen Playhouse, it was “Westwood Ho!” for moi.
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‘Until Tomorrow, Comrades’: Manuel Tiago asks us to examine ‘the woman question’
April 18, 2023This masterpiece of modern Portuguese literature is the final installment in International Publishers' translations of the works of Manuel Tiago.
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Traffic jam at the juncture of Black and ‘Blue’
April 11, 2023The second I entered the Matrix Theatre on the opening night of June Carryl’s Blue, Rogue Machine’s new play immediately got me into the mood indigo.
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