Sting’s Musical Floats My Boat, in Homage to 80s Shipbuilders by Hannah Yurke “The Last Ship” is everything you want from a musical written by and starring Sting: rousing songs, stirring political story, poignant romance, outrageously talented cast, and knock down amazing set. It’s 1986, and Maggie Thatcher’s Conservative England is enforcing austerity. In…
Octavio Solis Celebrates A Life Lived along the Border by Lynne Stevens We can all relate to family relationships, teenage pregnancies, romantic attractions, and youthful anxieties. But we cannot fully understand the duality of coming from what Octavio Solis calls the “other side” of “this invisible line we call the Border.” Word for Word…
Karani Marcia Leslie Johnson Strips Black Stereotypes Bare by Robert M. Gardner Karani Johnson pulls no punches in her hard-hitting exposè of Black stereotypes. We know well the history of white oppression since , but her “The Trial of One Short-Sighted Black Woman vs. Mammy Louise and Safreeta Mae” reveals Black people’s prejudices against…
Millennial Notes Nicole Parizeau Dissects Dead Artist’s Sex Scandal by Beau McGlasson To cancel or not to cancel—that’s the question at the heart of “The Human Ounce,” which exposes an Impressionist painter as a sexual predator. The sex scandal is based on Gauguin’s bad behavior in Tahiti. Nicole Parizeau’s new play grips us with…