Culture
Radical theatre tradition lives on in “Harlequino: On to Freedom”
March 28, 2017Harlequino’s playwright upends conventional notions of this epoch and its theater by making the protagonist, Harlequino, Black. The African slave trade had already begun and the comedy (albeit with serious undertones) contends something I’d never heard...
Read moreHow long is Lenin’s shadow?
March 28, 2017There was no one right way to resolve the dilemmas Lenin left behind. Perhaps it is past time that the competing camps of “Leninists” reconcile on this matter.
Read moreA greeting to Maryland visitors: “Welcome to Harriet Tubman country”
March 27, 2017The visitor center opened three weeks ago and has become a magnet drawing people from Baltimore, Washington, DC., Philadelphia and even from abroad.
Read more“Building the Wall,” resisting home-grown fascism through theatre
March 24, 2017It’s a rough-going 80 minutes but well worth the investment if it leads to greater effort to dismantle the incipient apparatus of fascism in America.
Read moreFrom Navy Seal commando to fair minded film director
March 24, 2017“My interest is always with the side that initiates. The story lies with those who do, more than with the victims.”
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