Beyond the Pandemic: Taking the Long View with Futurist Cecily Sommers
Last December, a dear friend gifted me a copy of Moshin Hamid’s exquisite Exit West, a dystopian tale of two refugees who escape the [...]
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Playwright Catherine Filloux Confronts the Tragedy of Child-Separation Policy
When, in June 2018, Judge Dana Sabraw of California put a legal chokehold on the Trump administration’s unconscionable child-separation [...]
Making Space for Women Artists and Remembering My Mother, Joan Sommers
No woman wants to be a “woman artist.” If you are a woman and an artist, you want to be judged on your work. Period. As Georgia [...]
Petrol Station – Political Theater That Is Clarifying for the Soul
Sulayman Al Bassam’s Petrol Station, which will have its world premier at the Kennedy Center this Friday (followed by performances [...]
Theater of Resistance in Brooklyn’s Fort Greene
In the days immediately following November’s shock election, pundits across the media landscape, responding to a rising chorus of “Not [...]
Immigrants, Stereotypes and Casting: Talking with the Actors of Three Trembling Cities
Three Trembling Cities, a new ten-part web series on New York City immigrants, is now available [...]
Three Trembling Cities – The Immigrant Experience in New York
On the eve of the American Revolution’s final battle at Yorktown, as portrayed in the musical Hamilton, Lafayette and Hamilton cross [...]
Bas Dreisinger’s Incarceration Nations – Re-Imagining Criminal Justice Reform
In an October 2014 edition of The New Yorker, Jennifer Gonnerman wrote about sixteen-year-old Bronx resident, Kaleif Browder, who, in the [...]
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