Culture
For LGBTQ Pride Month: Poetry for the season
June 20, 2018We hope these selections from Gay & Lesbian Poetry in Our Time provide some fresh and welcome perspective.
Read moreWashing the crime away: ‘Tar’ and ‘The Women of Lockerbie’
June 20, 2018My weekend playgoing curiously featured two plays centered on the theme of washing crime away.
Read more‘Hereditary’: The horror of privilege
June 19, 2018No one will call Hereditary, the directorial debut of Ari Aster, a simple haunted house story.
Read more‘Skeleton Crew’: Detroit workers’ jobs, homes, pensions, and lives on the line
June 18, 2018This play enacts the hollowing-out of American industry in the Great Recession years that began late in George W. Bush’s presidency.
Read more‘100 Aprils’: Armenian genocide makes for heavy drama
June 15, 2018This tragedy about genocide is for more adventurous ticket buyers with a leaning toward the serious, who don’t mind being challenged.
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