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‘Lizastrata’: Make eros, not thanatos, says Aristophanes

September 15, 2021 By Ed Rampell

The Troubadour Theater Company’s uproarious mounting of Lizastrata at the Getty Villa’s amphitheater is the latest of countless versions of Aristophanes’ Greek classic Lysistrata.

‘The Unusual Suspects’: Round them up!

September 13, 2021 By Michael Berkowitz

Unusual Suspects is also notable for its clear-eyed observations on the class dynamics between servants.

Series, series everywhere with no audience spared: What’s new in fall streaming

September 8, 2021 By Dennis Broe

If not the largest, it’s certainly “the most important” television festival in the world.

Wilder’s classic Our Town gets 21st century treatment—Race, class, and all

August 3, 2021 By Ed Rampell

In 'The Last, Best Small Town', playwright John Guerra has adapted Thornton Wilder’s 1938 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, resetting the turn-of-the-last-century Grover’s Corner, New Hampshire at turn-of-the-21st-century Fillmore, California.

Battle for the soul of popular media: COVID, Cannes, and conglomerates

August 2, 2021 By Dennis Broe

What Cannes tell us about the future of watching film in theaters, on TVs and on computers.