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METRO EVENT | ‘Living on the Hyphen’
By Alice Embree | The Rag Blog | March 14, 2016 Event: ‘Living on the Hyphen’ Dates: Thursday-Sunday, March 31-April 3, 2016 Times: Thursday-Friday, 8 p.m.; Saturday-Sunday, 2 p.m. & 8 p.m Where: Rollins Studio Theatre, The Long Center Address: … Continue reading
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Tagged Asian-American, Dance, Leng Wong, Living on the Hyphen, Metro, Multiculturalism, Theater
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METRO EVENT | Michael Milligan brings one-man ‘Mercy Killers’ to Texas audiences
‘Mercy Killers’ is merciless is in its very personal indictment of the American health care system. By Alice Embree | The Rag Blog | April 26, 2015 Event: Mercy Killers Date: Tue-Wed, May 12-13, 2015 Time: 8 p.m. Where: The … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice Embree, Health Care, Mercy Killings, Metro, Rag Bloggers, Theater, Vortex Theater
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THEATER | Brechtomania!
Why Marxist playwright Bertolt Brecht is theater’s hottest old name By Moira Herbst | Portside | September 7, 2014 The playwright, theorist and poet Bertolt Brecht is known worldwide as a giant of modern theater. But until recently, few theaters … Continue reading
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Tagged Bertolt Brecht, Epic Theater, Marxist Art, Moira Herbst, Playwrights, Radical Theater, The Threepenny Opera, Theater
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THEATER / Jonah Raskin : Zayd Dohrn’s ‘Outside People’
Cast of Outside People at the Vineyard theater in New York. Inset photo: playwright Zayd Dohrn.We’re all outsiders now:Zayd Dohrn’s new play, Outside People The play — which is part situation comedy, part soap opera, and part prophecy — plays … Continue reading
THEATER / Jonah Raskin : The ‘Reborning’ of Zayd Dohrn
Scene from Zayd Dohrn’s Reborning at the San Francisco Playhouse.The Reborning of Zayd Dohrn: A fascinating piece of theater from the son of Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers that speaks to our time now and where we’ve come from as … Continue reading
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Tagged Bernardine Dohrn, Bill Ayers, Jonah Raskin, Theater, Weather Underground, Zayd Dohrn
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Marc Estrin : Infiltrations
Skulker by R. Crumb.INFILTRATIONS By Marc Estrin / The Rag Blog / January 11, 2011 Last week, I wrote about what I consider politically unearned infiltrations supporting rampant consumerism. I will not sing Hallelujah in the mall. Infiltrations, however, do … Continue reading
Marc Estrin : Spanking Your Inner Child
Inner Child. Image from Integral Options Cafe.Have you spankedyour inner child today? By Marc Estrin / The Rag Blog / November 7, 2010 I’m just beginning the week run of rehearsals and performances in the pit orchestra for Peter Pan. … Continue reading
Marc Estrin : Slaughter of the Innocents
Image from picsdigger.SLAUGHTER OF THE INNOCENTS By Marc Estrin / The Rag Blog / June 6, 32010 Toward the end of Bread & Puppet’s marvelous Christmas Story, after the news spreads of Jesus’s birth, King Herod picks up the phone: … Continue reading
Marc Estrin : Endgame (Sam-I’m-Not)
Endgame. Image from Wired.SAM-I’M-NOT By Marc Estrin / The Rag Blog / April 20, 2010 Endgame — that’s us. At every level, checkmate threatens — political, environmental, cultural. Samuel Beckett’s 104th birthday last week brought to mind a chapter I … Continue reading
FILM / Peter Watkins’ ‘La Commune’ : A Conceptual Tour de Force
PETER WATKINS’ LA COMMUNE By Marc Estrin / The Rag Blog / March 29, 2010 The Paris Commune, that is — a citizens’ revolt against a royalist government, the organizing of that revolt, and the crushing of it by government … Continue reading
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Tagged Bertolt Brecht, Film, French Commune, Marc Estrin, Theater
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