theater
‘Naked Revolution: A Socialist Realist Opera’ is a Dadaistic immigrant dream farce
February 14, 2020Politically, I imagine there is on the artists’ part some lingering fondness for the ideals of Soviet culture they grew up with, if not always for the practice they experienced daily in the early years of...
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Uncovering new depths in regional theatre production of ‘Fun Home’
February 12, 2020It was called “the first mainstream musical about a young lesbian.”
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People’s World critics Ed Rampell and Eric Gordon win Better Lemons awards
February 6, 2020Rampell won the “Fomenter of Revolution” award, voted “most likely to stir a conversation about theater, politics, and social justice.” Gordon scored the “Up Late” award for being the most prolific critic.
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‘Until the Flood’ peels away seething anxieties over Ferguson killing
February 5, 2020The myth of Orpheus is still, always with us, shape-shifting in time and form.
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The ‘West Adams’ family: There goes the neighborhood!
February 4, 2020Skylight Theatre Company’s world premiere of Penelope Lowder’s West Adams is a great new play.
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