Elemental | Video Worth Watching
From the Vimeo web site: Photographer Ray Collins captures the magic that happens at the intersection of water and light. Each shot in this film was created from a single one of Ray's original photos....
View ArticleThe Right-Wing Firestorm Starting With the Smear of ACORN Rages On
By Peter Dreier In their recent documentary ACORN and the Firestorm, Reuben Atlas and Sam Pollard not only reveal how the mighty ACORN fell but also show how the attack on ACORN was a dress rehearsal...
View Article‘Seize the King’ at La Jolla Playhouse: Self-Righteousness, Greed and Lust...
If you come to Will Power’s reinterpretation of Shakespeare’s Richard III at La Jolla Playhouse expecting to hear that line about the winter of our discontent, or at the end of the play hoping to watch...
View ArticleRefugees Cast in ‘The Jungle’, an Earnest Play about Migrant Camp Life in Calais
As a response to its successful run at the Young Vic (December 2017-January 2018), The Jungle opened at Playhouse Theatre in London in June 2018 for a 20-week engagement. Created by Joe Robertson and...
View ArticleTyger – Guilherme Marcondes | Video Worth Watching
Following the election results in Brazil has been a bit discouraging with the "Brazilian Trump"—Jair Bolsonaro—getting 46% of the votes in the first round of the presidential election. Perhaps a slight...
View ArticleNtozake Shange – a laying on of hands / i found god in myself | Video Worth...
R.I.P. Ntozake Shange, (October 18, 1948 - October 27, 2018). StarTribune writer Rohan Preston notes that Shange’s “For Colored Girls”—an empowering series of interwoven poems on love and loss, joy and...
View ArticleJim Carrey Acceptance Speech at the Britannia Awards | Video Worth Watching
In his acceptance speech for BAFTA’s Charlie Chaplin Excellence in Comedy Award, Jim Carrey reminded the audience that Chaplin’s comedy included pointed social commentary that took on the American...
View ArticlePolitics, Reality, and Invention at the Time of Trial: San Diego Repertory...
One of the first new words the daughter of my friend learned at her elementary school was “actually.” In the first week of her school, she repeated “actually this and actually that,” proudly parading...
View ArticleFrom Encounter to Fade-out: Moxie Theatre’s ‘Fade’ by Tanya Saracho
The Moxie Theatre production of Fade written by Tanya Saracho and directed by Maria Patrice Amon, featuring Javier Guerrero as Abel and Sofia Sassone as Lucia, is a powerful, moving, and timely work,...
View ArticleMovin’ on with style and grace …| Video Worth Watching
Old Movie Stars Dance to Uptown Funk (Turn on captions to see movie titles) [Read more...]
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