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Timeless Absurdity: Revisiting “A Confederacy of Dunces”

May 8, 2012 By Kathleen Peine Leave a Comment

Kathleen Peine: The only thing more bizarre than the protagonist of this book is the way that it ended up being published, but I’ll get back to that story later. It’s a crazy tale.

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Heist: Who Stole The American Dream?

November 4, 2011 By Linda Milazzo Leave a Comment

Linda Milazzo: Heist will soon premiere as the fundamental primer on the historical and present-day inequities which gave rise to the Occupy Movement.

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Phoenix Rising Theater Company: Casting without Borders

October 10, 2011 By Diane Lefer 1 Comment

Diane Lefer: When will contemporary theatre catch up with the actual composition of the contemporary American family? When are we going to stop referring to color-blind casting as “nontraditional”? Given today’s society, a multiracial, multiethnic cast doesn’t look experimental, but realistic.

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Are We Writers or Gay Writers?

June 1, 2011 By Rev. Irene Monroe Leave a Comment

Rev. Irene Monroe: In our longing to enter into mainstream society, how far is too far before we not only lose our distinctive cultural identities, but we also potentially lose leverage from our communities and allies in our continued battle for LGBTQ civil rights?

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To Film a Mockingbird

May 13, 2011 By Ed Rampell Leave a Comment

Ed Rampell: One of the biggest, most enduring mysteries in American literature is why didn’t Harper Lee ever write another book after the smash success of her Pulitzer Prize winning To Kill a Mockingbird?

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Aloha oe (farewell to thee), Lanford Wilson.

April 8, 2011 By Ed Rampell Leave a Comment

Adam Rothenberg and Zabryna Guevara (Photo: Craig Schwarz)

Ed Rampell: Burn This is quintessential Wilson, who often depicted damaged souls struggling to find love and their way in our complicated, troubled world.

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“Ruined,” But Not Forever?

September 12, 2010 By Dick Price Leave a Comment

Dick Price: “Ruined,” tells the improbably uplifting story of a tawdry haven from an unimaginably cruel world where soldiers and the rebels they fight routinely rape, mutilate, and murder women for sport.

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Fly Away, Mockingbird

August 10, 2010 By admin Leave a Comment

John Summers: As the armies of tolerance celebrate To Kill a Mockingbird–it’s the 50 anniversary this month—one is put in mind of a maxim by W.H. Auden: “You do not read a book,” Auden said. “A book reads you.”

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