Vaclav Havel, the anti-communist dissident who became Czech president, is ending nearly 20 years of self-imposed exile from the theatre with a new play that some critics consider his best.
The Black Theatre Troupe's latest production is part comedy, part tragedy, and all truth. captures the moment when W.E.B. DuBois, one of the intellectual icons of the Harlem Renaissance, overreached and offered up his daughter Yolande to the cause without knowing the whole story.
Will David Cook keep on rockin' in the moderately compensated and anemically promoted world? Will David Archuleta light the fuse to his inevitable Christian Contemporary rocketship of fame? Is "American Idol" Season 7 Davidy enough? TV columnist Lisa de Moraes hears all sides and issues verdicts.
John Ford's 17th-century tragedy 'Tis Pity She's a Whore takes an exuberant interest in taboo and revenge. It isn't a prim play. The plot concerns a coquettish maiden who gets knocked up by her amorous brother; at show's end, the dead pretty much outnumber the living, and somebody's heart has been s
VANCOUVER-Pi Theatre's production of The 8th Land (May 15-31, 2008) transports its audiences to an ancient island where scarcity becomes desperately real for a civilization.The 8th
With the world premiere of William Maranda's The 8th Land, Pi Theatre continues its recent policy of free admission at the door. Those who want to plan ahead and guarantee themselves a seat have the option to pay.
Court Theatre in Chicago will open its 2008-09 season with the Midwest premiere of Tony Kushner and Jeanine Tesori's Caroline, or Change, starring Chicago's E. Faye Butler and directed by artistic director Charles Newell.
The West Valley Art Museum is offering scholarships to its 2008 Young Masters Summer Art Classes, which begin June 2. Children, ages 8-13, are encouraged to send in two samples of their work along with the application to receive a $70 scholarship. The application deadline is 4 p.m. Tuesday. 623-972-0635, visit www.wvam.org.
The big tickets at this year's Spoleto Festival USA By Perry Tannenbaum.Amid the MLK and RFK flashbacks, you may have missed this bicentennial memo: the College of Charleston and UNESCO are marking the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade. No need to feel badly. A few blocks from campus, Spoleto Festival USA has just gotten behind the commemoration -- which began
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