Culture

“Ironbound”: A gritty immigrant woman’s survival story

February 13, 2018 By Eric A. Gordon

Martyna Majok is an up-and-coming playwright whose work has already been seen at numerous theaters around the country.

For Black History Month: Recalling poet Paul Laurence Dunbar

February 13, 2018 By Special to People’s World

He wrote poetry, short stories, five novels, and a play. He also wrote lyrics for the first musical written and performed entirely by African-Americans to appear on Broadway.

Tackling Trump on stage, page, and workout videos

February 12, 2018 By Ed Rampell

Covering Trump in a variety of media is now a cottage industry. But the faux workout video was innovative.

Machinists spearhead ‘new wave’ of union music for working people

February 8, 2018 By Tom Campbell

"The hard part is getting people to listen (to the labor songs on the CDs) to the message. But music is a great communicator.”

We who would be king: Gilbert and Sullivan’s utopian “The Gondoliers”

February 7, 2018 By Eric A. Gordon

While all of Gilbert & Sullivan’s work pointedly skewers the British class and caste system with a poison-tipped pen, none goes quite so far as The Gondoliers in actually offering a blueprint for the classless society.