arts and culture
The art of ‘The Heal,’ Sophocles’s ‘Philoctetes’ in a Malibu amphitheater
September 6, 2019The production, performed in front of an ancient Roman-style villa that is a repository of relics wrought contemporaneously when Sophocles created his dramas, is suffused with philosophical musings.
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September 1, 1939: In memory of poet W.H. Auden
August 30, 2019Homage to Clio, the title poem of W.H. Auden’s 1960 small book of light verse—the later, shorter poems—is where I found out about the ninth muse, the Muse of History.
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Paul Robeson Theatre Festival: Like ‘Ol’ Man River’ Robey keeps rolling along
August 30, 2019The 2019 Paul Robeson Theatre Festival took place Aug. 23-25 with the theme of Awakening the Past, Present and Future: A Retrospective.
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L.A.’s Pacific Opera Project offers broad social criticism in The Mikado
August 28, 2019Now Pacific Opera Project (POP) has done it again, offering local audiences another shot at “the most fun one can have in a Los Angeles theater right now."
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‘This is Not Berlin’: South of the border like never before
August 23, 2019This audacious, bold, colorful film is for moviegoers who like to see the world with fresh eyes.
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