When a daughter returns from college with a severe undiagnosed illness, her family learns that their mining company's actions may have been the cause.
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The Science of a Girl’s Dream
Told that girls weren't scientists, I abandoned the idea of ever being able to access that tiny world under the microscope.
Read More »Theatre Review (Singapore): ‘Take Me Out’ by Richard Greenberg
In this production of the Tony-winning play about an athlete coming out of the closet, multi-dimensional acting rises above a script that hasn't quite kept pace with the times.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘I Am The Wind’ by Jon Fosse
In the Norwegian playwright's perplexing, humorous play, two men sail out into the open sea to find answers to some questions about themselves and about life.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Year of the Rooster’ by Eric Dufault
This riotous, wild ride of a play about cockfighting culture is back after a sold-out run in the fall.
Read More »Dark History: Mexico’s Drug Cartels, Part 2
Cartel conflict and politics took many twisted turns between the 1994 election of Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León and the emergence of the ultra-violent Zetas.
Read More »Theatre Review (LA): ‘An Ideal Husband’ at the Sierra Madre Playhouse
A first-rate production of Oscar Wilde's biting comedy, still relevant for contemporary audiences with its depiction of corruption and hypocrisy in high society.
Read More »The Winter of My Discontent
There are so many possibilities of warmer places with year round sun, destinations where a shovel is only used to make a sand castle on the beach.
Read More »The Art of Knowing and Getting What You Want (Or, Do You Want French Fries With That?)
The assumption that outside circumstances determine what you can have will reduce even a mighty oak of a dream to woodshavings.
Read More »Convict Stratification: The Social Construction of Prison Society
In prison, social status is based on a prisoner's crime of conviction, informant status, group (or "car"), and personal carriage.
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