Culture
Ronnie Gilbert’s “Radical Life in Song”
September 6, 2016A memoir isn't a well-researched biography by a historian; it is a remembering fat with feelings; this is a gloriously personal invitation to us to see how she saw it.
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“Dutch Masters”: A terse, tense dissection of race in America
September 1, 2016"The deeper I investigated, the more I related to what these characters are searching for and the ideas that are dramatized."
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“Next to Normal,” brave, hyperactive musical on a small stage
August 30, 2016It promises "an emotional rollercoaster, an inspiring and touching, if not transformative, experience for audiences," and largely succeeds despite the questionable premises of the book itself.
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“A Raisin in the Sun,” theatrical gem now in Santa Monica
August 30, 2016If by some chance you are unfamiliar with this play, it's time to get to know it; those who know it will find this a fresh, intimate and revelatory production.
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Politics, music, drama alive on death row in “Scottsboro Boys”
August 25, 2016In a grotesque political season, Direct from Death Row The Scottsboro Boys (An Evening of Vaudeville and Sorrow) brings entertainment to politics in a way that, for all the pain and tragedy of the story, allows us to...
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