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Gasland, Josh Fox's riveting personal documentary in which the filmmaker travels the country tracking the human cost of “fracking,” a controversial Read full Post
Taking the year 1960, and flying with it, the ensemble of Life Could Be a Dream (Doug Carpenter, Ryan Castellino, Jim Holdridge, Daniel Tatar and Jessica Keenan Wynn Read full Post
Photo by Keith Roenke Imagine how sonically colorless a world without traditional music would be. Actually, not very, according to the “retro-utopia” en Read full Post
While gay rights groups in California continue to clash over which year to push forward with a pro-gay marriage ballot measure (check out this Queerty post), Chief U Read full Post
COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS plus the LATEST NEW REVIEWS Also, this week's STAGE FEATURE on two plays set beyond the end of the word: Henry Murray's Treef Read full Post
 THEATER LISTINGS NEW REVIEW THEATER PICK PERICLES REDUXPhoto courtesy of Not Man Apart Productions Scholars have long discussed whether Shakespeare wrote  the e Read full Post
One day in 1973, Ellen Flanagan, an exemplary stay-at-home Berkeley mom who sewed and cooked and cleaned on demand, packed her husband and two daughters off to work Read full Post
Courtesy of Wylie O’Hara Doughty “He is Hubert Ward the movie star,” reads the penultimate sentence of John O’Hara’s 1962 Hollywood no Read full Post
Integrity is a slippery fish. “You can sell without selling out,” insists Stephen Trask, composer-lyricist of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, the punk-rock mu Read full Post
Despite the availability of hundreds of channels, an estimated 75 percent of America’s TV viewing remains fixed on local stations and network affiliates. Satel Read full Post
Allow me to suggest, to playwrights in search of a New Year’s resolution, that they quietly abandon the dysfunctional family as source material for the next 12 Read full Post
Here‘s an idea that’s been brewing since I saw Space (still at the Mark Taper Forum), Tina Landau‘s gush-filled ode to the cosmos and our changing Read full Post
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