Fun Home, the musical tragicomedy showing at Circle in the Square Theater, truly hit home, bringing the audience to its feet last Tuesday as the final poignant notes faded and the lights dimmed to black. While most audience members likely did not identify with the main character on every point, most have experienced the […]

Sometimes, in the art world, you come across a piece—a play, a painting, a photograph—that both intrigues and alienates you. Such was the case for me with The New York City Players’ Isolde, playing at NYC’s Theatre For a New Audience. This being my first foray into “experimental” theater, I was unsure what to expect. […]

America’s prison problem is no secret. Our share of the world’s incarcerated population is grossly disproportionate to our share of the world’s total population: the NAACP reports the percentages to be 25% and 5%, respectively. Tragically, the percentage of those incarcerated who are people of color is also grossly disproportionate to the percentage of the […]