Josh Kornbluth Makes Revolution from Brain Research by Barry David Horwitz Josh Kornbluth has found a way to link self-discovery to political regeneration. The answer is empathy. Josh, a warm and inviting solo performer zooms his show from home in Berkeley, thanks to the Shotgun Players. Josh shows us how exercising the “empathy circuits”…
Anna Deavere Smith Reignites Struggle over Police Brutality by Patricia L. Morin Twilight: Los Angeles, the PBS movie, resurrects the explosive problem of police brutality. Raging riots ignited over the acquittal of four officers who savagely beat Rodney King on March 3, 1991. Now, thirty years later, we are faced with the murders of…
Emily Mann Highlights Steinem’s Fabulous Feminism by Barry David Horwitz Emily Mann’s Off-Broadway play “Gloria: A Life” offers a shocking timeline of how professional women were treated from the 70s onwards. The rights women enjoy today were unheard of when Gloria Steinem started working in New York as a journalist. Bosses tried to seduce…
Lynn Nottage Unveils Plot against U.S. Workers by Barry David Horwitz Has anyone forgotten what we learned in 2016? Have we figured out yet why mid-western factory workers went for you know who—after voting for Bernie in the Michigan primary? Lynn Nottage’s great Pulitzer Prize winning play, “Sweat,” has pointed out the problems we…