reviews
Korean series ‘Extraordinary Attorney Woo’ challenges assumptions about autism and ability
September 8, 2022Woo is extraordinary as she is not only the brightest star in her graduating class from Seoul National University, but she is also a high functioning autistic.
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‘Under the Banner of Heaven’: Hell on Earth
June 16, 2022Hulu’s new television series Under the Banner of Heaven is a powerful reconsideration of fundamentalist religion.
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Playwright Lucas Hnath examines the idea of Walt Disney in West Coast premiere
March 30, 2022LOS ANGELES — It’s a long title for a short play about a big subject: Walt Disney. It’s A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney by Lucas Hnath, whose play...
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Tchaikovsky’s ‘Iolanta’ in Los Angeles staged premiere features a blind soprano
March 23, 2022The adventuresome Pacific Opera Project (POP) gave the Los Angeles stage premiere of Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta Sun., March 20. The single largest production ever mounted by the company, the opera stars blind soprano Cristina Jones in the...
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‘Nosferatu’ 100 years later: Plagues, politics, sex and vampires
March 23, 2022This month marks the 100 year anniversary of the debut of the German Expressionist silent horror film Nosferatu.
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