Playing Around

Louis Rosen under the aegis of the 92Y. “What IS American Roots Music,” our host begins. “Even 40 years ago, it probably wouldn’t [...]

Based, in part, on a Smithsonian Associates Lecture by documentary filmmakers Paul Glenshaw and Darroch Greer. Introduced by Black American [...]

Produced by Chicago’s estimable Steppenwolf Company of which the playwright is a longtime member. I Night Safari Gary is the tour guide [...]

Sanctuary City: a city whose municipal laws tend to protect undocumented immigrants from deportation or prosecution, despite federal [...]

There’s no question that Richard Rodgers (1902-1979) and Oscar Hammerstein II (1895-1960) represent The Golden Age of Musicals. Though [...]

Tatort, German for “crime scene,” makes the U.S. Law & Order franchise seem like a lightweight. The German police procedural [...]

Ted Lasso, the series streaming on Apple TV+, cleaned up at the Emmy Awards on Sunday night. And, deservedly so. The brainchild of SNL star [...]

“These men, who had to renounce the blues to be sanctified, who often sneered at preachers in their songs, were the ones who really [...]