Culture
Artists vs. apparatchiks in Wajda’s last film “Afterimage”
May 31, 2017Wajda found a subject through which he could express his credo as an artiste—criticism of Stalinism.
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Elián, son of Cuba, among history’s most famous 5-year-olds
May 30, 2017Gonzalez became “a boy caught between two worlds.”
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Transgender opera “As One” gets transcendent Southern California premiere
May 26, 2017“We live on two poles of gender,” said one librettist. “Hopefully we can mess up those lines between them."
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Langston Hughes: Working-class voice for equality, peace and socialism
May 25, 2017Langston Hughes is justifiably known as the Poet Laureate of the African-American people. He died May 22, 1967 in New York City.
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The NAACP’s W.E.B. Du Bois and May Ovington illuminate an era
May 25, 2017In this play, we are eye witnesses to history.
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