reviews
‘Kiss of the Spider Woman’: Human connection a shield against fascism
April 10, 2023PASADENA, Calif. — Thrust together at an Argentine federal correctional complex, the notorious Devoto prison in Buenos Aires, two men of polar opposite persuasions occupy a common claustrophobic cell. The time is the Dirty War period...
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The Met stages Terence Blanchard’s opera ‘Champion’ about boxer Emile Griffith
April 6, 2023New York City’s Metropolitan Opera, housed at Lincoln Center, ranks among the highest and most sophisticated expressions of artistic culture in the United States. The company shares a global renown with the leading opera houses of...
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Centro Fidel Castro Ruz – Havana’s new museum dedicated to Cuban Revolutionary leader’s life
March 22, 2023The revolutionary history that is recounted here contrasts with the surrounding relics from the ruling class of another era.
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Dalí, Brathwaite, Soin: Dialogues about change at the Art Institute of Chicago
March 20, 2023A high-powered draw at the Art Institute.
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Where have all the comedians gone? Just asking…
February 13, 2023The U.S./NATO proxy war against Russia in Ukraine has prompted a default line in many places in Western societies but none more prominent perhaps than in comedy, where comic heroes and satirists of the past have...
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