Down with the Republic! Shakespeare's "Titus Andronicus" in Topanga
Ellen Geer tackles a tragedy written in 1594 set in ancient Rome, resets it in the future, and does so as comment on contemporary America.
New history (with comics) recounts humanity’s long march toward reason
These stories of humanists through history are framed as struggles against the authority of the church, which controlled almost every aspect of life for millennia.
I watched Dinesh D’Souza’s awkward anti-Hillary movie so you don’t have to
D'Souza selectively culls, bends, and ultimately breaks history in a desperate attempt to show how all evil flows from Democrats.
New book explores the roots of the term “White trash”
Some landless whites in early America who survived war, workhouses, prostitution, and press gangs ditched their poverty wages and constricted lives and lit out for the territories.
Two plays about “command rape” - in war and in the office
Two plays about how men use rape to exert power over the women they conquer, command, and employ.
Holychild’s summer jam EP: A Brat Pop critique of capitalism
A new critique of pop culture, mass consumption and its objectification of the female body.
“Recorded in Hollywood”: Black musical pioneer John Dolphin’s story on stage
We simply cannot accept that Recorded in Hollywood might close and never be heard from again. It has Broadway lights twinkling all over it.
Molière’s madcap merriment amuses
"The Imaginary Invalid" pokes fun at doctors and the class system with ribald humor.
Author Roy Speckhardt: “Can we create change through humanism?"
"Humanists understand that this is the only life we have, and this planet is the only place we have to live it."
This week in history: “Towards the future” honors Bastille Day
July 14th is Bastille Day, the holiday commemorating the fall of the Bastille prison at the beginning of the French Revolution in 1789.
