theater
‘Bacon’ stageplay explores sexuality, toxic masculinity, and class politics
February 11, 2025The play explores the fraught relationship between two troubled young men as they come to grips with their sexuality and trauma.
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‘Evanston Salt Costs Climbing’: Is humanity doomed to self-destruction?
January 28, 2025“The people in this play want very much to connect with each other,” writes director Guillermo Cienfuegos in a program note. “They need it—but that fear and anxiety [get] in the way,” “[e]specially right now; political...
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Fired Dallas Black Dance Theater members now in national spotlight
December 6, 2024Management tries to destroy entire structure of U.S. labor law.
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The disappeared of Ayotzinapa reverently remembered in new theater work
November 19, 2024Mexico has one of the highest rates of disappearances in the world, many the victims of femicide. Political, environmental and labor leaders have often been targeted for elimination as well.
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‘Antíkoni,’ a stunning new Native American interpretation of the ancient Greek play
November 15, 2024Theatergoers are in for a very special occasion—a revelation, it’s not too excessive to say—if they will expand their horizons a bit and embrace a Native American perspective on view now.
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