reviews
“Madame Butterfly”: The racial/sexual politics of cross-cultural concubinage
March 30, 2016LA Opera's current production of Giacomo Puccini's "Madame Butterfly" hits not only a homer, but a grand slam.
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Paul Robeson fought Jim Crow, lynching, and McCarthyism
February 26, 2016Gerald Horne has made an amazing contribution to African American radical history with a newly published biography.
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Cartoonist Ted Rall delivers with “Bernie”
February 10, 2016Rall offers a deftly drawn, incisive portrait of the man and the political climate against which he rebels.
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“Candide”: The best of all possible shows?
January 27, 2016It's at all times innovative, witty and charming, full of puppetry, pageantry, imaginative stagecraft and Voltaire's waggish sensibility.
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“A Year Without Sundays:” remaking Cuban society through literacy campaign
November 23, 2015A modern day activist for social change often dreams of that day when all the hard work of struggle comes to fruition . . .
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