Special to People’s World
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‘Coming Together’ concert raising awareness for voters rights available to watch now
October 23, 2020Music by radical U.S. composer Frederic Rzewski, African-American composer Florence Price, and Johann Sebastian Bach is featured in an online concert.
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Sinclair Lewis’s ‘It Can’t Happen Here’ as masterpiece radio theater
October 22, 2020The struggle for democracy is ongoing in every generation, not the least our own on the cusp of a crucial election in which the future course of America will be written.
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Video tribute to radical composer Marc Blitzstein by University of Wisconsin Opera
October 19, 2020This is one event to mark on your calendar now for a very rare treat.
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Robey Theatre Company releases nine scripts by Black playwrights in publishing venture
October 9, 2020For 26 years, the Robey Theatre Company has made its mission to tell the stories of the Black global diaspora on stage. It is now also doing so in print.
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Perry Mason and the Case of the Careless Remake
September 3, 2020The Perry Mason brand is the third most popular book series of all time, a show that ran in some form for over 35 years, and now the flagship production for HBO’s summer lineup.
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‘Paul Robeson: The Artist as Revolutionary’ author talk with Dr. Gerald Horne
September 2, 2020A world-famous singer and actor, a trained lawyer, an early star of American professional football and a polyglot who spoke over a dozen languages.
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August 28th online 65th anniversary reading of ‘The Ballad of Emmett Till’
August 26, 2020The Fountain Theatre has a long and esteemed history of producing and often premiering plays addressing the African-American experience, as well as other topics from a socially progressive standpoint.
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Eric Bentley, critic, playwright, Brecht translator, Hanns Eisler fan, dies at 103
August 17, 2020Readers and theatergoers who appreciate the work of Bertolt Brecht, and reading about it in English, have primarily Eric Bentley to thank. His contributions are truly beyond measure.
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