“Blueprint for Paradise”: A polished drama about Nazis for our time
The ruins of the Murphy Ranch, an abandoned pre-WWII Nazi compound in Pacific Palisades, have inspired a new play.
“The Suitcase”: Europe’s and America’s Holocausts seen from the Shawng Zeleezay
The ambitious Echo Theater Company is now staging the United States premiere of a surrealistic Polish play about the Holocaust.
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.
“Jason Bourne” film: Don’t trust the CIA
What's arguably most interesting about Jason Bourne is its up-to-the-minute topicality, ripping those proverbial headlines right off the front pages.
Blinded by the bright lights of Hollywood and “Café Society”
How Woody Allen keeps 'em coming on such a high level of interest is a phenomenon of continued creative juices still flowing in the senior decades.
“Our Little Sister”: A masterpiece
"Our Little Sister" is a film of surpassing beauty and sensitivity, a fully realized insight into family that unfolds patiently, with elegance and understanding.
American Gods: Cast, producers talk whitewashing, Mike Pence, new trailer
Imagine a world where supernatural personifications of the internet, capitalism, and media are newly formed gods hell-bent on taking power.
