reviews
‘Sugarcane’: Will survivors of Indian residential schools ever find justice for institutionalized abuse?
August 19, 2024A stunning new documentary film co-directed by Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie and produced by National Geographic will open your eyes—and perhaps more importantly, your heart—to the widespread abuse of Indigenous children over the course...
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‘Tartuffe: Born Again’: Molière shows crooks and fraudsters will always be with us
August 12, 2024Can we even imagine a world without crooks, fraudsters, hucksters, impostors, scam artists, snake oil purveyors, narcissists, cheats, grifters and hypocrites? Probably not.
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‘Crevasse’ recalls 1938 encounter between Walt Disney and fascist filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl
August 6, 2024BURBANK, Calif.—If Project 2025 isn’t explicit enough about its intent to institute fascism in America on Day One of a reprise of Donald Trump's presidency, starting January 20, 2025, some new plays now world premiering in...
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‘MaXXXine’ review: Bloody glamour and a complex female anti-hero collide for great storytelling
July 16, 2024Come for the blood and 80s aesthetic; stay for the great characters and layered storytelling.
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The robots are coming! R. U. R.eady for ‘R.U.R. Cabaret?’
June 7, 2024R.U.R. Cabaret, the musical, running about 90 minutes with one intermission, is set in a dystopian future on an island where the robots were originally created to do the work of humans and labor for them...
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