Culture
“Gendering Radicalism” tells important story of women and communism
August 28, 2015We can't write about the California Communist Party without writing about the women leaders who led it from its birth until the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Read moreTwo kids reclaim the world in new opera “Second Nature”
August 27, 2015May "Second Nature" find a second production in another community soon. It's a remarkable work.
Read moreRacism as a pigment of your imagination: “Citizen: An American Lyric”
August 26, 2015The cutting-edge new play, with its ripped-from-the-headlines topicality, is, sadly, already in need of updating.
Read moreBeyond this door is another dimension: capitalism’s “Patterns” of (mis)behavior
August 14, 2015"Patterns" was written for the little screen by one of television's titans, the late, great Rod Serling.
Read more“The End of the Tour” is more snore than tour
August 10, 2015Really, whose idea was it to film a blabfest about a guy purportedly on anti-depressants?
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