Spy parenting 101: Deadly decisions on “The Americans”
Characters Philip and Elizabeth Jennings are good parents. That is their baseline identity.
“Film” and “Notfilm": Playwright Samuel Beckett meets Buster Keaton
On the face of it, a collaboration between Beckett and Buster Keaton sounds like an unlikely alliance of artists.
"A Singular They”: Intersex drama explores teenage angst
Most coming of age stories don't also involve deciding what gender you want to be. That's the dilemma facing the lead character in this play.
“Batman v Superman”: It’s hero vs. hero, but the audience loses
This film is the cinematic equivalent of a child slamming two plastic toy dinosaurs into one another.
“Madame Butterfly”: The racial/sexual politics of cross-cultural concubinage
LA Opera's current production of Giacomo Puccini's "Madame Butterfly" hits not only a homer, but a grand slam.
Open letter to Motion Picture Academy, L.A. Women’s Theater Festival
"Dear Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences, you have come under intense criticism for Cloroxing this year's Oscars..."
This week in women’s history: Poet-novelist-activist Marge Piercy turns 80
Piercy has written 17 novels, including bestsellers, and 19 volumes of poetry.
“The Americans”: Hostility between two world powers in new episode
We return to larger considerations and smaller links in this drama between Philip and Elizabeth, and their loving, yet emotionally torn daughter.
New opera “Fallujah”: Heartbreaking look at war and PTSD online now
It is the first opera written about the Iraq War, and it is highly worthwhile.
New play confronts Alaskan Native and Caucasian worlds
In this play, an angry teenager from a troubled home in Juneau is sent to live and work with his Tlingit grandparents in a remote fishing village.
