arts and culture
Dissident voices in declining powers: Two exhibitions at the Wende Museum
March 14, 2019Viewers may have to set some of their biases outside the door and expect to be challenged by what they see at the Wende.
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‘Pure Native,’ ‘Too Much Sun,’ ‘Home’: Three plays about home
March 13, 2019Three plays running now in L.A. are centered around notions of home.
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‘The Clemency of Titus,’ Mozart’s morality play about the enlightened leader
March 7, 2019Mozart’s The Clemency of Titus (La Clemenza di Tito), dramatizes part of the life and reign of the Roman emperor Titus Flavius Caesar Vespasianus Augustus.
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‘Canyon’ and ‘Hype Man’ reveal the chasm of racial division in America
March 7, 2019Two new plays, one a world and the other a West Coast premiere, have just opened in L.A., both dealing with the hot-button issues of our time.
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The 1968 L.A. high school walkout celebrated in new student-written oratorio
March 5, 2019What if you attended a high school where you were forbidden to use your own native language (even though it’s one that was taught as a subject there)?
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