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“Red”: Abstract art’s odd couple makes great drama
August 29, 2013John Logan's multiple Tony Award-winning Red is a theatrical time machine that transports audiences back to those heady days when abstract expressionism was the vogue.
Read moreToday in labor history: Arthur Miller refuses to name communists
June 21, 2013In the height of the Cold War witchhunts on June 21, 1956, playwright and a giant of American theater, Arthur Miller, courageously defied the House Committee on Un-American Activities and refused to name any suspected communist.
Read more“Taming of the Shrew” brings to life classic, troubling play
June 12, 2013Hear, hear the voice of women throughout the ages struggling for their rights, to be treated as equals, not chattel!
Read moreHe is gone from you now … reflections on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
January 9, 2012"Around 1968," Jackson says, "my parents were working at pretty good jobs, in a factory. Now there are no more jobs. What would Dr. King think of that?"
Read more“Richard III”: Classic with a modern lesson
July 12, 2011Enjoying Shakespeare under the stars at Topanga Canyon's Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum is de rigeur during summertime for Angeleno theatergoers.
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