arts and culture
Majority Latina cast and crew in world premiere play ‘Alma’
March 15, 2022It has been a coming of age story all along—and really, what else would it be?
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Filmic gifts of Gugu: ‘Fast Color’ and ‘The Girl Before’
March 10, 2022One can only hope that Gugu will continue to use her extraordinary gifts, gracing our screens to advance such causes and further our understanding and action.
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‘The Lehman Trilogy’: Epic theater traces a finance family’s 160-year history
March 9, 2022One doesn’t have to admire these people, except for the sheer brilliance of their heartless audacity, to recognize The Lehman Trilogy as one of the most significant plays of our time.
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Expressions of African-American music on CD—and all that jazz
March 7, 2022Jazz is widely recognized as perhaps the only musical art form originating in the United States, thanks largely to its African-American inventors.
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Docudrama ‘Detained’ exposes true stories of mass immigrant deportation
February 25, 2022Immigrants across America who might years ago have had some minor brush with the law are being rounded up, torn from their families.
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