This is theatre for the age of the Corona Virus: it takes place in your home, or your car, or honestly any place with good phone reception. What makes Human Resources truly wild, and genuinely fun, is the fact that it’s not on Zoom. It takes place on the telephone.
Read More“One of the first steps to achieve equality is the recognition of women artists of the past. Knowing our past is the only way to build a better future for women artists and therefore it is crucial to acknowledge their work and raise awareness about them,” says French-born artist Laurence de Valmy.
Read MoreToday, we share books of fiction and poetry written by Black authors. We’re inspired by the #BlackoutBestsellerlist movement, which aims to flood the bestseller lists with books by Black authors. (Your homework: Buy two books by Black authors. And buy them from a local, independent bookstore.)
Read MoreIn her latest novel, Redhead by the Side of the Road, no detail is too small for Anne Tyler. She’s at her best when she’s showing us the beauty in the ordinary, and reminding us how important it is to truly see ourselves.
Read MoreDuring the COVID crisis, artists and arts organizations need our support. In our new blog, learn how to support local arts, find innovative programs and online programming started up during quarantine, & discover local artists.
Read More“I think poetry is more relevant today than, perhaps, it's ever been,” Courtney told me. “We have so much going on in the world. I think it allows people an outlet, a way to express themselves…”
Read MoreCarrie Callaghan’s historical novel Salt the Snow is so rich in detail that I found myself transported to the streets of 1930s Moscow. The frigid cold of the Russian winter is palpable—along with the stark living conditions, the nineteenth century mansion that’s been repurposed as a newspaper office …
Read MoreTo meet Gene Bruskin is to meet a titan of the labor movement. Talking with him opens up a world that most history books barely broach. A tall, burly man with a booming voice, wispy gray hair and a constant cough that interrupts just about every other sentence, Bruskin is the embodiment of what it means to be a grassroots labor organizer.
Read MoreShipwreck, which starts out as a conventional drama about a group of old friends gathering together for a weekend, meanders its way from the mundane to the surreal. It wanders deliberately and just as deliberately leaves the viewer with more questions than answers.
Read MoreWhen I asked the author why collaboration with other artists is so important to him, he told me, “It’s what feeds me, what keeps me alive.”
Read MoreWhile other American girls were joining girl scouts and sports teams, Keena lived in a tent and learned to track and watch out for wild animals, like elephants, leopards, hippos, impala, kudu, and even lions. Except, that is, whenever her parents needed to return to Philadelphia.
Read MoreThe Havel Project reminds us that the stubborn determination of the individual can undermine totalitarian systems, and that revolutions can be born of childlike imagination and whimsical fun.
Read More“The absence of people of color in the greatest of white literature,” Scott said. “I do think that it's a weird absence. It's a gaping hole. ... [W.E.B.] Du Bois’s line about race, ‘the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line,’ is true. And now we're into the twenty-first.”
Read MoreRight to Be Forgotten, a timely new play for the digital age written by Sharyn Rothstein and directed by Seema Sueko, is having its world premiere production at Arena Stage, in the Arlene and Robert Kogod Cradle.
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