reviews

“Paradise Lost: Reclaiming Destiny,” a movement adaptation of Milton’s epic poem

March 15, 2017 By Eric A. Gordon

The show features highly athletic movement—including acrobatics, rope swings, chains, contortion, and more. It’s a powerfully physical form of ballet, a kind of modern-day Spartacus.

Green fascism? Bio shows surprising roots of organic farming movement

March 15, 2017 By Steve Andrew

New biography of Jorian Jenks, one of the founders of modern organic farming, reveals his roots in Britain's interwar fascist movement.

Native Women in Film Festival highlights anti-pipeline cause

March 7, 2017 By Ed Rampell

By presenting the usually overlooked female indigenous point of view onscreen, the filmmakers of this festival are pathfinders, blazing new trails in cinema and television.

Woody Guthrie, songwriter and People’s World columnist, sings again

February 2, 2017 By Tim Wheeler

An ensemble from Scotland brings Woody Guthrie’s radical, pro-worker songs and commentary to life.

“Urinetown”: Disaster capitalism as a musical

November 7, 2016 By Eric A. Gordon

NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Urinetown: The Musical is a wicked, irreverent satire with broadly drawn characters from the world of melodrama. It tells an earnest tale of love, greed, corruption and revolution set in a not...