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16 April 2024

In 1927 Sergei Eisenstein – the wunderkind of Soviet cinema, whose 1925 Potemkin swept the globe – was reportedly pressured to cut Leon Trotsky out of...

08 April 2024

A Noise Within’s gripping production of August Wilson’s King Hedley II is a brutal, harrowing odyssey into what W.E.B. Du Bois called “the soul of Black...

29 March 2024

The 31st annual Los Angeles Women’s Theatre Festival is taking place this weekend. LAWTF shines the limelight on women of various ethnicities who perform...

25 March 2024

Wolf Mankowitz’s The Bespoke Overcoat is a theatrical adaptation of The Overcoat, a short story written in 1842 by the Ukrainian-born Nikolai Gogol, who...

05 March 2024

Although Americans may have largely forgotten about Georges Méliès, every moviegoer owes this French motion picture pioneer an immense debt of gratitude....

24 February 2024

The 32nd Pan African Film & Arts Festival, America’s largest Black-themed filmfest, took place Feb. 7 – Feb. 19 in Los Angeles. During Black History...

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