Tag: history
‘Convention’: Staging a 1944 Progressive-Moderate Slugfest
Danny Rocco's sprawling experimental history play proves that everything new is old again.
How Halston Predicted the Future and Became a Pariah
Frédéric Tcheng’s documentary retraces the rise and fall of an iconic, enigmatic American designer.
Who Are The 1491s and What Is ‘Between Two Knees’?
An intertribal, Indigenous sketch-comedy troupe exposes a deep cultural scar.
Boycott For Choice: Can Artists Be Profiles in Courage?
If you are an artist and pro-choice, you have to confront a terrible and difficult question.
‘The Old Gray Homestead’: Centenary of a Forgotten First Novel
Frances Parkinson Keyes is little remembered these days; she may have been the Joyce Carol Oates of her time.
Let Them Eat Culture: Notre Dame and the Collateral Damage of...
Where they elite meet to...not care about anyone but the elite. As usual.
At Driehaus Museum, Yinka Shonibare Fabricates Post-Colonial Identity
The artist takes over a lavish Chicago mansion, for a contemporary twist on Gilded Age excess.
Sackler, Altria, MacArthur: Ethical Quicksand in Big Philanthropy
Is our collective conscience bothered before we accept the gift or after the public outcry?
Yes, Ma: Gay Boy Playwright-Choreographer Makes Good
It's all about his mother (and her love life) in the part-play, part-dance 'The Mar Vista.'
‘Transit’ Strike: An Interview with Franz Rogowski
The 33-year-old German actor is about to take the movie world by storm.
Why Edith Wharton Might Hate My Play
A mixed-race playwright reconsiders 'The House of Mirth' and its relevance (or lack thereof) for people of color.
Please, Lynn Nottage, Don’t Make Me ‘Meet Vera Stark’!
One of our towering dramatic playwrights finds no time for comedy.
Bringing Home the World: The Daguerreotypes of Girault de Prangey
Gorgeous, detailed daguerreotypes of Mediterranean architecture from a previously unknown pioneer of early photography.
Did We Fail Marlon Riggs?
In April 1994, the Associated Press published a story on how HIV+ patients were starting to live longer. A study out of San Francisco...
Triangle Shirtwaist Burns with ‘Fire in My Mouth’ Oratorio
An infamous tragedy inspires a monument to immigrants and their American struggle.
And the Oscar Goes to…Blanche Walsh?
The idea of "movie star" was built for her. She deserves the first "Forgotten Women" Oscar.
Now On Deck: The Jackie Robinson Museum
Illuminating the life and character of a legend who opened many doors for people of color.
Diversity and the Arts: Can the US Escape Whiteism?
What we do about the one is related to what we do about the other.
‘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.
Living the Theater of the Absurd
The symptoms of this pathology begin with malevolent myth and end, inevitably, in violence.
RIP RGB, RIP GOP, RIP USA
None of the second-rate white men currently on the Supreme Court will receive the honors given to RBG when they finally die.
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Herman Cain (and Republicans Unable)
And then there was Jerry Falwell, Jr., with his open pants, evangelical FUPA and his hands veering into prime side-boob territory with -- hey, doesn't she have a name?
