arts and entertainment
The search for signs of intelligent life revisited in L.A.
October 25, 2016The play opens with Trudy, an intelligent, though visibly deranged street person anticipating the arrival of aliens from outer space.
Read more“A Hundred Lifetimes”: Climate change and politics – on Venus?
October 24, 2016If you want to escape Earth but not leave the real, complex struggles to solve its many challenges, this book is for you.
Read moreBabs’ majordomo in solo play “Buyer & Cellar”
October 21, 2016Jonathan Tolins’ Buyer & Cellar is one of those clever concoctions where it’s hard to know where fact ends and fiction begins.
Read more“The Handmaiden”: Stunning erotic crime thriller in Japanese-occupied Korea
October 21, 2016In a mesmerizing 145 minutes, the director opens up a toolkit full of sharp contrasts and opposites.
Read moreDouble play: “Billy & Ray” and “The Stand-In”
October 17, 2016The cynicism Wilder’s oeuvre is known for suggests that he may not necessarily have been so wild about us - the human race.
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