When it comes to women’s history, we already know the big names like Harriet Tubman, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Susan B. Anthony. But what about the equally important yet unconventional women who made history in more unusual, less acclaimed fields? These are the women you haven’t heard of — who have been influential to our country …
It’s axiomatic: the better the performer, the more difficult it is to give him the respect he deserves. Body language often exceeds the verbal one in expressiveness, because words elude, even when they don’t exactly fail. At the very least, they can be hard to find, especially when it comes to someone as eccentric and magnetic as …
Eleanor Burgess’ The Niceties, a two-hander that tackles related problems about rightness, wrongness and acceptance is currently triggering gasps at The Geffen Playhouse. The play pits a black poli-science college student, Zoe Reed (Jordan Boatman), against the white history professor who is counseling her, Dr. Janine Bosko (Lisa Banes). Dr. Bosko is tasked with grading …
In the rush to pay tribute to President Lincoln on the 150th anniversary of his death this month much has been said of his greatness – and of John Wilkes Booth’s villainy. But I found no mention of the young man who watched from the second gallery of Ford’s Theatre on April 14, 1865, and …
Peter Doyle, the Man in the Balcony on April 14th Read More »
Every year, at Passover, we contemplate the issue of slavery…
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