arts and entertainment
Filmic gifts of Gugu: ‘Fast Color’ and ‘The Girl Before’
March 10, 2022One can only hope that Gugu will continue to use her extraordinary gifts, gracing our screens to advance such causes and further our understanding and action.
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‘The Lehman Trilogy’: Epic theater traces a finance family’s 160-year history
March 9, 2022One doesn’t have to admire these people, except for the sheer brilliance of their heartless audacity, to recognize The Lehman Trilogy as one of the most significant plays of our time.
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‘From’ is a terrifying horror allegory of society in times of peril
February 25, 2022Hopefully From stays on its current trajectory and doesn’t stray too far from the elements, including the real-world allegory that makes it so compelling.
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‘Assassins,’ Stephen Sondheim’s musical about Presidential shooters is a hit
February 24, 2022This imaginative, harrowing, gallows humor-type production marks the triumphant return of one of L.A.’s finest theaters.
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‘Power of Sail’: Fighting Nazis in the Ivy League (or inviting them in)
February 23, 2022This is truly what theater and the arts need to be doing now to educate, enlighten, and awaken.
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