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The Poor of New York: Old-Fashioned Melodrama New Again

July 3, 2011 By Ed Rampell Leave a Comment

Ed Rampell: Although, as this highly recommended play rightfully reminds us, poverty – then and now – is serious business. Greed was not good when perpetrated by Wall Street’s Gordon Gekkos of 1837, or today.

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Satire Is Very Serious

December 28, 2010 By Tina Dupuy Leave a Comment

Tina Dupuy: Judging by the reaction to The Daily Show host Jon Stewart’s championing the Zadroga 9/11 responders bill to a successful passage during the lame duck session – most of the media doesn’t understand comedy either.

Filed Under: Television Tagged With: 9/11 responders, comedy, culture, entertainment, fox news channel, gretchen carlson, humanities, humor, jon, jon stewart, literature, Rachel Maddow, responder, satire, serious, the daily show, theatre, understand, understanding electricity

Not Only “For Colored Girls”

November 13, 2010 By Rev. Irene Monroe 2 Comments

Irene Monroe: For Colored Girls is not only for colored girls because it offers a pathway to self-growth, finding our authentic power, and discovering the divine in one’s self.

Filed Under: Film Tagged With: african american culture, american literature, american poets, authentic power, black male, black women, color vision, colored girls, colors, for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf, mabel simmons, ntozake shange, self growth, shange, theatre, tyler perry, womanism

“La Razón Blindada”–Theatre of Confinement and Liberation

September 29, 2010 By Diane Lefer Leave a Comment

De la Mancha (Castanos-Chima) and his Panza (Diaz de Sandy)

Diane Lefer: For those unfamiliar with contemporary experimental theatre from Latin America, Vargas’ work is a fine introduction with its stylized performances, heightened language, philosophical concerns, and its exploration of the dynamics of power.

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Waiting For Lefty: The Wait Is Over

September 16, 2010 By Ed Rampell Leave a Comment

Theatre West’s revival of Clifford Odets’ Waiting For Lefty is the most important play currently presented in L.A., and possibly the best production of 2010.

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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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