reviews
Luis Alfaro’s new play ‘The Travelers’ melds raunchy humor with intense spirituality
September 26, 2023“We are all travelers, Brother. Our journeys take place inside.” If life happens to toss you on our doorstep, we will take care of you.
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‘I know my days are numbered’: A celebration of radical artist Keith Haring
July 13, 2023LOS ANGELES — Keith Haring (1958-1990) was a gay boy from Kutztown, Pa., who moved to New York City in 1978 to study art. For the next decade, he thrived in the city’s emerging Hip-Hop and...
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After the peak: As financial crisis expands, so does the streaming TV wasteland
May 3, 2023The writers are fighting back with the time-honored weapon of the strike, but expect lower quality, more conservative TV in the future.
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‘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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