Culture
Native Guitars Tour in Nashville: A first for Indigenous music in the South
October 4, 2023This is a musical community on the move.
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Sean O’Casey’s three revolutionary plays staged in New York and Ann Arbor
October 3, 2023Seán O’Casey, regarded as the first proletarian dramatist writing in English, made his theme the struggle for the emancipation of the Irish people, and by extension of all working people. In Ireland, O’Casey is (unfairly) best...
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‘I Was a Red Priest’: Christianity on socialism’s side during the Cold War
October 2, 2023I Was a Red Priest: Memories and Testimonials offers through its protagonist a Christian social analysis that is now minimized but was widely held in the post-World War II era.
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‘How It’s Gon’ Be’: A young Black artist starts figuring it out
September 29, 2023LOS ANGELES — “I wanted to capture the heart of a young artist trying to figure out where he fits in,” playwright JuCoby Johnson explains. “These characters each have a deep love for one another that...
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‘This Is Not a True Story’ recapitulates anti-Asian micro-aggressions in purgatory
September 28, 2023LOS ANGELES — Western (i.e., Caucasian) artists have a seemingly irrepressible urge to fetishize, generalize, and stereotype all other cultures and people—Indigenous peoples, Asians, Latinos/as, Africans—and even some now regarded as “white” but who were once...
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