Lisa Ramirez’s To The Bone is not only a vicious melodrama about the lives of a group of immigrant women working in a New York poultry factory and live in a world where the law does not exist, and, paradoxically, is always in full force.
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If many now feel America is entering a nightmare age, Ubuntu Theater Project’s production of Arthur Miller’s standard-bearer of thwarted American hope, Death of a Salesman, offers strange, distorted messages from the past.
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It's impossible to miss the political implications of this year's annual Black Choreographers Festival, the three-weekend event has featured image after image of black bodies in crisis.
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One of the chief pleasures of The Christians is that we’re not so much enmeshed in a drama, as we are in the drama of a theological debate. The play not only begins with a sermon, but also in tone and structure resembles a church service.
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Tesori’s music is tidy where it should be a fiery mess, and the traces of Broadway conventions (a reliance on pop pastiche and crowd-pleasing numbers) mute Kron’s shifty writing and the source material.
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In a fundamental way, the enthusiasm for "Ghostlight" is its own defense, though it leaves many troubling questions unasked. The chief among them is content: what types of productions should this community produce going forwards? And in what ways? And why should anyone care?
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Youth Speaks has taught countless young people to value what they have to say, what they see and hear around them, their minds and the ability to speak uncomfortable truths with joy and care.
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Ubuntu Theater Project's Artistic Director Michael Socrates Moran on the Ghost Light Protest, the Church/Theater Connection, Trump's election, and the difficult of so-called Political Art. CLICK TO LISTEN
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Brilliance makes its own rules, goes where it wants, and disappears all too soon. So here are the new rules of 2016.
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The holiday tale is a tricky beast. We need stories that promise warmth and comfort -- an escape from the cold, dark days of winter. And yet they also have to have a bite to them, a recognition that death is always a hair's breath away.
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