“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.
