Strawdog’s production of Bennett Fisher’s play feels like a torturous lecture.
Tag: race relations
Court Theatre’s Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner is tasteful, digestible—and unnecessary
A new adaptation ignores the realities of Jim Crow America in favor of spreading its message of love.
Mudbound deserves a theatrical run in Chicago
This superb American feature is now available to watch on Netflix.
Two exhibits trace the journey of Dawoud Bey
The Art Institute revisits Dawoud Bey’s ‘Harlem, U.S.A.,’ and the Renaissance Society mounts ‘Picturing People’
The color of his skin
The color of his skin, part 2: A missing gun, a wavering prosecution, and decades of regret
The color of his skin
Joe Henson died because he was black. Forty years later, his daughter wants justice.
After a hiatus from reality, Mamet’s back
Race has problems, but it’s the best Mamet play in recent years
Kanye West Knows How George W. Bush Feels
Kanye West is beating George W. Bush in the personal maturity contest of life.