Play review
Young Asian-Americans pursue dreams of success in ‘As We Babble On’
June 12, 2018As America moves toward ever greater multi-ethnic nationality, will more democratic racial and gender representation in the halls of success do anything to alter the hardening class divide?
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Two operatic divas, Regina and Violetta, take St. Louis by storm
June 11, 2018Two strong operatic characters from works composed almost a century apart show the mettle of women who’ve been challenged by society’s conventions.
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‘An American Soldier’: New opera asks troubling questions about citizenship
June 8, 2018Hazing becomes racial harassment becomes sadistic torture becomes death. This was the experience of Pvt. Danny Chen in the U.S. Army.
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Shakespeare’s ‘Coriolanus’: An ancient class struggle epic with modern topicality
June 5, 2018In the first act the company’s timing was occasionally off, but by Act II they were off and flying into the wild blue yonder.
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Jeanine Tesori’s musical ‘Violet’ again, now in Hollywood
May 18, 2018The creators of Violet are issuing a strong critique of our national Hollywood obsession.
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