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‘POTUS’: The seven women keeping the great dumbass alive

January 31, 2024 By Ed Rampell

A not-so-funny thing happened on the way to the Forum—I mean, Geffen Playhouse.

‘La Cocina’: A slice of life inside a frenetic New York restaurant kitchen

January 25, 2024 By Eric A. Gordon

As sometimes happens when you dine out at a much-touted eating venue, the results are not always 100% satisfying. And I’m afraid that was my take-out from La Cocina.

English language world stage premiere of ‘Insulted. Belarus’: Agitprop in Santa Monica

December 12, 2023 By Eric A. Gordon

Could there be a economy where the collectivity of the people own the principal industries of the land yet where political and civic life is democratic in practice as well as in theory?

‘Lines in the Dust’ dramatizes endemic race discrimination in public education

November 9, 2023 By Eric A. Gordon

Numerous milestones marked with the premiere production of this play.

Sean O’Casey’s three revolutionary plays staged in New York and Ann Arbor

October 3, 2023 By Jenny Farrell

Seán O’Casey, regarded as the first proletarian dramatist writing in English, made his theme the struggle for the emancipation of the Irish people, and by extension of all working people. In Ireland, O’Casey is (unfairly) best...