Culture
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s Freudian ‘Frankenstein’ on stage in Pasadena
August 21, 2019A Noise Within’s (ANW) Frankenstein is one of the most striking plays I’ve ever seen.
Read more‘American Factory’ offers hope, dismay and a more automated future
August 20, 2019I won’t wait to the end of this review to state that this is must viewing for anyone interested in the future of American labor and the nature of Chinese industry and its labor force.
Read moreIWO: Book traces workers’ efforts to insure themselves against capitalism’s failures
August 19, 2019The International Workers Order was an insurance company like none ever seen - a Communist-led mutual aid society to shield its members from capitalist evils.
Read more‘Fefu and Her Friends’: Fornés’s feminist odyssey at the Odyssey
August 16, 2019With its cast of eight, Fefu is well acted and not without humor—although it is more of the ironic, sardonic sort than the laugh-out-loud brand found in most comedies.
Read morePoetry selections for the 200th anniversary of the Peterloo Massacre
August 16, 2019Percy Bysshe Shelley’s lifetime was defined by the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars, and severe political repression in England and elsewhere in Europe.
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