“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.
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.
“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.
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.
Human trafficking and sex slavery: The opera
Set amidst a maelstrom of deception, secrecy and violence, Anya17 emphasizes young girls' aspirations for comfort and freedom in "the West."
“Ghostbusters”: 30 years later, can this sequel stand on its own?
It's not easy making a sequel. Should you stick to the original formula?
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.
