Tina
The career of and the cruelty in Tina Turner’s life is told in Tina, an HBO documentary currently streaming. Not only do we become reacquainted with the strife and struggles faced by this one-of-a-kind talent — whose […]
All In: The Fight for Democracy
As testified by an authority no less impressive than Andrew Young, former mayor of Atlanta, Georgia and erstwhile United States Ambassador to the United Nations, Martin Luther King Jr. “shed a […]
The Answer Is…Reflections on My Life
It’s difficult to think of the longtime host of Jeopardy! as the late Alex Trebek. In reading his memoir, The Answer Is... — a fun play on the classic answer-first quiz show’s format — Trebek’s literary voice resonates […]
Chelsea Peretti as Gaby in Spinster
Spinster
Spinster is a term that is fittingly out of fashion in the 21st century. In days gone by the word spinster referred to a woman who had aged out of the demographic in which […]
The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart
With theaters closed and live theater on the life support of screen streaming, your committed theater writer is obliged to keeping this column vibrant and relevant until we all can return to live performance […]
Giving Voice
The United States has produced a mighty amount of profound playwrights — among them Eugene O’Neill, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee, Lillian Hellman — but the American bard who is […]
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Hillbilly Elegy
JD Vance’s memoir Hillbilly Elegy has been turned into a Netflix movie directed by Ron Howard, the competent — but too eager to satisfy the mainstream moviegoer — auteur of such popular films as Splash and Apollo 13, both starring […]
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The Reagans
“Make America Great Again,” piles of supposed proposals suggesting a formative policy agenda, right-wing Christians in the spotlight pushing hard for a thinner line between church and state, calls for government deregulation, a […]
David Nevell and Erin Anne Williams. Photo credit: Mike Bradecich
Daisy
Canadian playwright Sean Devine’s 2016 play Daisy is now in production at Long Beach’s International City Theatre; it’s a virtual production that can be accessed online at https://www.virtualvenuetheatricals.com/internationalcitytheatre. Though the first televised political […]