theater reviews
‘The Climb’ dramatizes trauma, adaptation, and hope for the blind
December 7, 2023“The failure is not trying,” the performers state, as one of a number of memorable mottos. “Never lose sight of who you are.”
Read moreFraming Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera: Mexico’s great revolutionary painters in opera
December 1, 2023If ever there was a couple absolutely ideal for immortalization in the musical medium of opera, it’s Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera.
Read moreAfter 70 years, Albert Maltz’s ‘The Morrison Case’ gets its U.S. premiere
November 3, 2023The final words of the drama prompt the audience to think about patriotism.
Read moreNative dramatist satirizes ‘woke’ pretensions in ‘The Thanksgiving Play’
October 20, 2023SANTA BARBARA, Calif.—What is to be done about Thanksgiving? What does it even mean anymore? How do we celebrate it? Should we at all? And most importantly, how do we teach it to our children? What...
Read more‘The Real Black Swann: Confessions of America’s First Black Drag Queen’ in review
September 15, 2023Ever hear of William Dorsey Swann? Me neither. Another of those many buried figures in the history of Black and queer liberation.
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