“What’s the point?” Everybody (Nicole Erb) plaintively asks about human existence as she confronts Death (a playful Anne Gee Byrd as a not so Grim Reaper)...
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14 September 2022
Before the premiere of Sophocles’ Oedipus, most of the outdoor tables at the Getty Villa’s café were filled, and while dining I spied from afar a...
08 September 2022
Orwell’s Peerless Proletarian Parable: Socialism with an Animal Face
Not even Brecht or Odets could make this one up: Mere days before...
03 September 2022
“I feel like I’m in heaven!” gushed a glowing Ava DuVernay. I overheard the director of 2014’s Civil Rights epic Selma at the August 17 press preview...
30 July 2022
In The Tempest William Shakespeare mused “What’s past is prologue,” which is certainly true for Jan Goodman, whose radical roots set the stage for a...
25 July 2022
There are three great acts of naval rebellion in nautical history and the one that’s been the least celebrated in popular culture – until now – is (finally...