Natalie Y. Moore’s play The Billboard, now in a world premiere with 16th Street Theater, is subtitled “A Play About Abortion.” In the spirit of Chicago improv, allow me to say: Yes, and. The setup is as simple as it is powerful: a neighborhood gadfly puts up a billboard near the [fictional] Black Women’s Health […]
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Posted inFilm
The new Wonder Woman is OK with men
A blockbuster vehicle for the venerable superhero plays down her radical feminist roots.
Posted inFilm
Lois Weber laid down a marker for women in film
But her progressive ideas left something to be desired.
Posted inBlogs
The man who wrote about the Woman Rebel
Peter Bagge talks about Margaret Sanger, the subject of his new graphic biography.
Posted inArts & Culture
Cathleen Schine’s flower children
The protagonists of Cathleen Schine’s ninth novel, Fin & Lady, wander 1960s New York.