arts and entertainment
“Urinetown”: Disaster capitalism as a musical
November 7, 2016NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Urinetown: The Musical is a wicked, irreverent satire with broadly drawn characters from the world of melodrama. It tells an earnest tale of love, greed, corruption and revolution set in a not...
Read more“Unbound”: A generational saga from Panthers to Occupiers
October 31, 2016Playwright D.G. Watson’s Unbound proves the old cliché “politics makes strange bedfellows.”
Read more“The Source” updates opera for the WikiLeaks age
October 26, 2016"The Source" is to be applauded for daring to tackle such controversial subject matter.
Read moreThe search for signs of intelligent life revisited in L.A.
October 25, 2016The play opens with Trudy, an intelligent, though visibly deranged street person anticipating the arrival of aliens from outer space.
Read more“A Hundred Lifetimes”: Climate change and politics – on Venus?
October 24, 2016If you want to escape Earth but not leave the real, complex struggles to solve its many challenges, this book is for you.
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