On The CFR
In ‘Lab’ Strike Against B’way, Is Actors’ Equity Overreaching?
Writers disrespected...non-union actors bullied...Broadway pros offer a sharp critique.
Now On Deck: The Jackie Robinson Museum
Illuminating the life and character of a legend who opened many doors for people of color.
Everyone Say It With Me: ‘Immigration Is Good For America’
Thank the exhausted, demonized human who did for you what most Americans won't do.
Diversity and the Arts: Can the US Escape Whiteism?
What we do about the one is related to what we do about the other.
When a Safe House Isn’t So Safe
Abby Rosebrock's play "Blue Ridge" finds Marin Ireland is brilliantly all the rage.
‘Tito and the Birds’: Using Animation to Fight Political Fear
Only 10-year-old Tito, his friends and his pigeons take a stand and save the day.
First, We Dance. Next, We Decolonize Our Food Systems.
How the Indigenous artists of Dancing Earth are creating a movement...by creating movement.
Beto-Hate, and the Viability Void in the Democratic Party
Why is the Sanders wing rushing to define and destroy Beto? Fear.
How ‘Nailed It’ Fails It
Join us, as we mourn the death of craft.
Living the Theater of the Absurd
The symptoms of this pathology begin with malevolent myth and end, inevitably, in violence.
Ready, Set, Upchuck: Here’s Your Trump Year in Review
How our traitor-in-chief damaged America for a second year.
Our Tech-Artist Future May Look Like Justin Stewart
At 28, art remains his backbone. Or is it tech? Or is it art? Or is it tech?
What Theater Admins Can Teach Us About Our Executive Branch
The theater has mechanisms to ensure our comfort and safety. Why doesn't the government?
I’m a Playwright, and Trigger Warnings Trouble Me
What right has anyone to tell me how audiences should experience my plays?
When American Expats Sounded the Alarm
History tells us that victory in war isn't inevitable. And ostriches need their heads out of the sand.
LIC Artists Pledge to Resist Amazon Art Washing
Cuomo, de Blasio and Amazon betrayed the cultural communities of Queens. An artist collective says no.
Duke University to Offer the Dance MFA We Need Right Now
Where success will be measured by positive social change, not just reviews.
Lepage Still White-Washing as ‘Kanata’ Opens in Paris?
The story of the show is as offensive as the story being told.
Atticus Finch Galvanizes Broadway
Aaron Sorkin's adaptation of Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird" astounds with the great Jeff Daniels.
Let’s Disconnect the ‘Disconnect’ in Nonprofit Theater
Just because a play delivers "excellence" doesn't mean it delivers "impact."
Ten 2018 Movies the President Should Watch (But Won’t)
They'd have a lot to teach him. If only he'd watch them. And none are by white guys.
In ‘Network’ on Broadway, Design Battles Howard Beale
Played by a craggy, and mesmerizing Bryan Cranston, he's not going to take it anymore.
Pastors, Skaters, Lady Gaga: Vox’s Alissa Wilkinson on 2018’s Best Films
Vox's film critic joins CFR's Sean Douglass and Jose Solís to review their "favourite" movies of the year.
Can Divan Orchestra Bring Peace to the Middle East?
Reflections on a "project against ignorance" for young Arab and Israeli musicians.
What, Exactly, Do Nancy Pelosi’s Dissidents Want to Prove?
In the Blue Wave Era, she's hardly progressivism's preferred face. It doesn't make her unable to lead.
Mossad, Charlie and Khalil: ‘The Little Drummer Girl’ Comes to TV
The Arab-Israeli conflict rages on, making a TV version of John Le Carre's 1983 novel sadly relevant.
Jack Whitten’s Sculptures Are a Revelation
At the Met Breuer, he remixes materials and cultural influences into a gorgeous, very personal body of work.
Progressive? Moderate? Dems Should Stop Infighting Before It Starts
America's central problem must be the top concern of all Democrats.
Any Artist Would Be More Qualified Than Heather Nauert
For US Ambassador to the UN, that is. Let's get more artists into the Foreign Service.
When a Favorite Coming-of-Age Novel Turns 50
Revisiting Richard Bradford’s "Red Sky at Morning" -- and all that steamy stuff in the high desert.
Democrats in the House! (Here’s My Laundry List)
Unless there's Trump, Julian Assange, Vladimir Putin and peeing hookers in a time-stamped video, Democrats need to be careful with impeachment.
Thrills, Chills, Battle of Wills: Theresa Rebeck’s ‘Downstairs’ Terrifies
With Tyne Daly and Tim Daly reaching new acting heights, what is the playwright afraid of?
Trigger Warnings at the Theater: Should This Be a Thing?
Isn't the whole idea of art to trigger something emotional?
We Need a Little Yiddish, Right This Very Minute
As a smash hit, all-Yiddish "Fiddler" preps to move Off-Broadway, the American theater's most unlikely CEO seizes a new tradition.
Impressionist Berthe Morisot Finally Gets Her Day
Recentering an intrepid Impressionist as equal to Monet and Renoir.
Pastors, Skaters, Lady Gaga: Vox’s Alissa Wilkinson on 2018’s Best Films
Vox's film critic joins CFR's Sean Douglass and Jose Solís to review their "favourite" movies of the year.
Lear deBessonet Makes Theater as a Hopeful Public Proposal
This community organizer/director also aspires one day to recreate the Federal Theatre Project.
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Trigger Warnings at the Theater: Should This Be a Thing?
Isn't the whole idea of art to trigger something emotional?
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Pastors, Skaters, Lady Gaga: Vox’s Alissa Wilkinson on 2018’s Best Films
Vox's film critic joins CFR's Sean Douglass and Jose Solís to review their "favourite" movies of the year.
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Lear deBessonet Makes Theater as a Hopeful Public Proposal
This community organizer/director also aspires one day to recreate the Federal Theatre Project.
