reviews
W.E.B. Du Bois and Langston Hughes texts set to music by Margaret Bonds
October 26, 2023Textually and musically, we can be grateful that these stunning works can now be heard and appreciated.
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Sean O’Casey’s three revolutionary plays staged in New York and Ann Arbor
October 3, 2023Seán O’Casey, regarded as the first proletarian dramatist writing in English, made his theme the struggle for the emancipation of the Irish people, and by extension of all working people. In Ireland, O’Casey is (unfairly) best...
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‘This Is Not a True Story’ recapitulates anti-Asian micro-aggressions in purgatory
September 28, 2023LOS ANGELES — Western (i.e., Caucasian) artists have a seemingly irrepressible urge to fetishize, generalize, and stereotype all other cultures and people—Indigenous peoples, Asians, Latinos/as, Africans—and even some now regarded as “white” but who were once...
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Luis Alfaro’s new play ‘The Travelers’ melds raunchy humor with intense spirituality
September 26, 2023“We are all travelers, Brother. Our journeys take place inside.” If life happens to toss you on our doorstep, we will take care of you.
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‘I know my days are numbered’: A celebration of radical artist Keith Haring
July 13, 2023LOS ANGELES — Keith Haring (1958-1990) was a gay boy from Kutztown, Pa., who moved to New York City in 1978 to study art. For the next decade, he thrived in the city’s emerging Hip-Hop and...
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