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Theater Review (NYC): ‘Complicity’ Explores #MeToo in Hollywood
An absorbing, pungently played exploration of the stark truths and confounding complexities that spawned the Hollywood edition of the #MeToo movement.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): Shakespeare’s ‘Measure for Measure’ from Smith Street Stage
A new production of 'Measure for Measure' takes the measure of cruelty and love with innovative staging and an excellent cast.
Read More »Theater Review (Off-Broadway NYC): ‘Our Man in Santiago’ by Mark Wilding
Not everything is as it seems in this comic spy thriller about the CIA and the overthrow of Chilean president Salvador Allende in 1973.
Read More »9-11 Memorial Ceremony at Ground Zero – It Must Continue to Be Held Every Year
There is something about saying the names of those who died for all to hear that confirms that those lost existed and had lives that mattered to those who loved and knew them.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): Walt Disney Faces the Animators’ Strike of 1941 in ‘Burbank’ by Cameron Darwin Bossert
The play acutely dramatizes the strike using only three characters, and suggests parallels with our age that go beyond the current resurgence of union organizing.
Read More »Labor Day – A Time to Pause and Reflect
Labor Day comes at the worst of times and the best times.
Read More »Theater Review (Broadway): ‘The Kite Runner’
A stage adaptation of the Khaled Hosseini bestseller is flawed but earnest, moving and relevant.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): The Fire This Time Festival 2022
Six incisive short plays explore the varied range of backgrounds and identities that form the Black experience in the U.S.
Read More »Good Guys with Guns Can’t Stop Mass Shootings
“Only Thing That Stops A Bad Guy With A Gun Is A Good Guy With A Gun.” The favorite bull*hit spewed by the NRA, Trumpsters, MAGAs. Nothing is holier than the second amendment, for which there is only one reading, one interpretation according to the usual suspects. Really. No, I …
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