reviews
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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Aristocrats, acrobats, anarchists, marriage proposals and a plane crash populate Shaw’s ‘Misalliance’
June 3, 2024Let the worldly wise tomfoolery and drollery unfold.
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‘Mix-Mix: The Filipino Adventures of a German Jewish Boy’ in world premiere
May 22, 2024“Mix-Mix” is an English translation of “Halo-Halo,” a dessert that’s a mixture of jellies, tapioca pearls, fruit, beans, corn, shaved ice, condensed milk and ice cream—an appropriate metaphor for the mixed cultures that came together as...
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Supreme Court justices Scalia and Ginsburg on trial in new opera
November 22, 2023“Could we please make it a constitutional requirement that no one can be sworn into office in the White House or Congress without having first seen Scalia/Ginsburg?”
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Before he was a Bolshevik: Claude McKay’s radicalization is subject of new book
November 22, 2023McKay spoke for a new generation of Black radicals, as distinguished historian Winston James shows.
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