theater
Kilusan Bautista: Rendering Homelessness Visible Through Theater
December 28, 2017 · Leave a Comment
Kilusan Bautista performing at Wellesley College in Boston, Massachusetts. © Lia McPherson, 2016. Courtesy of the artist.
Truthworker Theatre Company: Youth Voices Against the School to Prison Pipeline
January 21, 2015 · Leave a Comment
Truthworker Theatre Company performing “BAR CODE: A Performative Analysis of the School to Prison Pipeline” at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health in New York in April 2014. From left: James Gagliardo, Oddisey Miller, and Leah Mohammed. (Photo: Liaizon Wakest)
Fela! Jolts Broadway
December 2, 2009 · Leave a Comment
By Heather Bent Tamir
Fela Anikulapo Kuti was a mold breaker, a musical innovator, and political firebrand. He didn’t just march to his own beat; he invented it. That beat was Afrobeat, a beguiling blend of jazz, funk, pop, and African rhythms that is now jolting Broadway like a thunderclap. Big, bold, and African but with no cinematic bloodlines (like Lion King), no well-known musical score, and no celebrities on the marquee, ‘Fela!’ on Broadway is proof that there is no pat formula for first-rate entertainment. Read more
