arts and culture
‘Earthquakes in London’: Aftershock of an epic play about climate change
February 24, 2020Overall, this heady, ambitious apocalyptic concoction is the type of theatrical Molotov cocktail we’ve come to expect one of L.A.’s leading theater companies to toss at its audience.
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‘Can’t Pay? Don’t Pay!’ a madcap anarcho-socialist direct action slapstick sitcom
February 21, 2020Pay! creates a heady anarchic concoction mixing loads of laughs and antics with a tumbler of leftwing politics, as Groucho Marx mingles with Karl Marx.
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Pan African Film & Arts Festival returns to L.A.
February 20, 2020One of the top ways to celebrate Black History Month—and the moviegoing experience in general—is to attend the Los Angeles-based 28th Annual Pan African Film & Arts Festival.
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‘The Father’: Alfred Molina in a meditation on dementia
February 18, 2020Today’s America seems to be suffering from people dominating the public sphere who appear to be experiencing mental diseases and self delusion and a complete, total lack of self awareness.
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‘Naked Revolution: A Socialist Realist Opera’ is a Dadaistic immigrant dream farce
February 14, 2020Politically, I imagine there is on the artists’ part some lingering fondness for the ideals of Soviet culture they grew up with, if not always for the practice they experienced daily in the early years of...
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