theater
‘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.”
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West Coast premiere of ‘Freight’ starring J. Alphonse Nicholson is must-see theater
November 28, 2023Is a Christ-like vow of poverty truly the answer to the Black dilemma in America—or space travel to Saturn?
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Race relations North/South, today/yesterday, city/plantation
November 17, 2023NEW ORLEANS — New Orleans Opera (NOO) promoted its production of Blue as “the southern premiere of the most talked-about new American opera.” I’d been meaning to get back to the Crescent City to see it...
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‘Tacos La Brooklyn’ centers cultural identity: Who appreciates and who appropriates?
October 6, 2023The playwright asks us to examine our view of family, interracial dynamics, cultural appropriation, gentrification, and the pros and cons of the street venture scene all the while immersing us in a distinctly Los Angeles social...
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Drama ‘Blood at the Root’ explores the background to the Jena Six case
September 22, 2023“This story is inspired by a series of incidents, media reporting, and social action in Jena, Louisiana, in 2007.”
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