Canada, 2025. Duke, a successful American rapper, is interviewed about his 2017 visit to Kabul, Afghanistan. At the insistence of his record company, he had gone to entertain the troops, but while there, he thoughtlessly…

Every minute, 32 people in the United States experience intimate partner violence. Eighty-five percent are women. Why do they stay? Abusers threaten harm to wives and children. They use guilt or love-bombing to confuse and…

At six years old, emulating his mother, playing piano by ear, it would never have occurred to Steve Ross or his family he’d become Crown Prince of Cabaret. By the time he finished high school,…

Given the choice between juvenile hall and community service, 15 year-old  Zan Hardt (Gerardo Navarro) naturally chooses the latter. Breaking the fourth wall, he explains indenture as reading to “temporarily displaced librarian,” 40 year-old Dorothy…

Screening and In Person Conversation with Hasan Minhaj Mike Birbiglia is an actor, director, filmmaker and here, monologist, not a stand-up comedian. The artist includes what his profession calls “jokes,” but they’re so intricately woven…

Having attended performances by the company several times this year, I begin to recognize some of its movement vocabulary. Taylor work is not only aware of arms but often uses them as if to propel. Aloft…

As Producing Artistic Director of Musicals Tonight, Mel Miller began his endeavor with no experience, managing to build an enthusiastic subscription audience for 100 shows over 20 years. He learned by doing and now, “retired”…

In the 1880s south, families commonly depended on washerwomen to clean apparel and household linen. Though most customers were White, African Americans who were able also made use of outside help. Laundresses carried gallons of…