Gloria, A Life by Emily Mann is a must-see for what it encourages – to understand ourselves today through viewing the past – and for its humanity, good will, and uplifting remembrance of history.
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A Black History Program for White People
The election and continued support of the worst president in American history made me realize that some white people – enough to alarm me – can be conned beyond redemption. But they can also be educated.
Read More »Book Review: ‘Revolutionary Threads’ by Bobby Sullivan
'Revolutionary Threads' by Bobby Sullivan undermines its own attempts at revealing some historical truths with its use of questionable source material.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC Off-Broadway): ‘Downstairs’ Starring Tyne Daly, Tim Daly
Theresa Rebeck's 'Downstairs' starring Tyne Daly and Time Daly is a drama-mystery, a thriller with sly, humorous overtones. As usual the playwright's particular and complex characterizations startle with their humanity and angst.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC Off-Broadway): ‘The Hello Girls,’ a New WWI Musical by Peter Mills and Cara Reichel
A smart, crisply written book by Peter Mills and Cara Reichel links a sequence of superb musical numbers, recounting in the best musical-theater tradition the little-known story of the U.S. Army's WWI female telephone switchboard operators.
Read More »Event Review: CONjuration Convention, Atlanta GA
CONjuration s a convention about magic and fantasy, loosely based around Harry Potter.
Read More »Interview: Meg Rodgers from ‘Every Christmas Story Ever Told (and Then Some!)’ at the American Shakespeare Center
Rodgers and two other actors will play over 30 different characters in this fast-paced Christmas comedy opening on December 4.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC Off-Broadway): ‘Two by Friel’ at the Irish Repertory Theatre
How director Conor Begley fashions and melds the two plays together just takes one's breath away. The acting ensemble is extraordinary. Bagley's economically staged direction enhances their creation of life and ineffable soulfulness, and he does his hero Brian Friel justice in these superlative renderings.
Read More »Christmas Song Characters Hold Annual Christmas Party
It is not known to many people, but the characters from many popular Christmas songs get together every year on December 1st to have their own Christmas celebration.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC Off-Broadway): ‘Thom Pain (based on nothing)’ Starring Michael C. Hall
Any day, give me the existential crisis of attempting to make sense of the uncertainty of consciousness, of shifting memory, felt emotional loss, pain, and the clown's struggle of existence.
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