Karen Zacarías Fights Border Walls with Sitcom Laughs by Tom Glynn “Native Gardens” offers a 90 minute romp through the culture war battlefield, featuring some of the best local actors and reminding us that interracial sitcoms are a tradition on American TV. If you liked the confrontations in “All in the Family” and “The…
María Irene Fornés‘ Absurd Comedy Probes Women’s Fears by Patricia L. Morin “Fefu and Her Friends” delicately weaves individual women’s stories into themes to spotlight women’s struggles for gender independence, life, and renewal. All loaded into a 1977, rich, comic absurdist play. Fefu (magnificent Catherine Castellanos) welcomes us to her lavish, 1935 home, where…
Yussef El Guindi Unveils Rampant Imperialism behind Tourism by Barry David Horwitz In a swank hotel in Cairo, a wealthy, anxious older couple from Wisconsin has hired a young Egyptian couple as their tour guides. “Hotter than Egypt” clips along at a witty pace as two couples try to figure each other out. Oh,…
Quiara Alegría Hudes Links Addiction to U.S. Anxieties by Barry David Horwitz The title “Water by the Spoonful” comes from a doctor’s advice on how to give a dehydrated child water—slowly, over many hours. Maybe we can tackle our national drug problem one spoonful at a time, too . . . But an addicted…