Culture
‘Fire Shut Up in My Bones’: First Black composer at Metropolitan Opera
October 29, 2021History was made at New York City’s world-famous Metropolitan Opera when it opened the season on September 27 with its first work written by a Black composer, jazz musician, and well-known scorer of many Spike Lee...
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Palestine at the Toronto International Film Festival
October 29, 2021Films made about the Israeli Occupation of Palestine and the plight of the Palestinians are increasing in number.
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Canada at the Toronto International Film Festival
October 28, 2021A main theme in Canadian films is the history of the First Nations and their relations to colonial exploiters.
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‘The Serpent’: An Edenic experimental classic returns to the live stage
October 27, 2021Instead of telling a single tale, in The Serpent the dozen multi-culti, mostly young members of the Odyssey Theatre Ensemble stage a series of vignettes with an improvisational vibe.
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In new play, St. Clare of Assisi emerges from the Occupy movement
October 26, 2021LOS ANGELES — The Echo Theater Company’s world premiere production of Chiara Atik’s Poor Clare has just opened, delayed 19 months after the originally scheduled March 2020 premiere. We didn’t know what we were missing, but...
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