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Lady Gaga and the producer Bruce Cohen were appointed co-chairs of President Joe Biden's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities.

Anna Deavere Smith is one of the most accomplished people in American theater. She’s an incredible actor, playwright and scholar. But, Anna’s also a trailblazer.

Lyric deserves enormous credit for embracing this undertaking and going all in both in terms of scale and daring. It is, by any measure, a major event.

Lyric Opera of Chicago presents the second of two Chicago-set world premieres in its season: Proximity, a trio of new American operas that confront head on

'Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992,' Anna Deavere Smith's documentary play about the Rodney King uprising, is reconceived for a new era with many of the same problems.

OCMA has reopened after shutting down to complete construction. Plus, Simone Forti at MOCA and a book on Richard Gilman, in our weekly arts newsletter

Thirty years after its premiere at the Mark Taper Forum, the seminal play on the 1992 uprising after the LAPD's beating of Rodney King is back in L.A.

Anna Deavere Smith and director Gregg T. Daniel revisit the writer/performer's groundbreaking solo documentary theater piece, retrofitted for a cast of five, in a new production at the Mark Taper Forum.

Written by Sarah Ladipo Manyika, published in 2022 by Footnote Press, Between Starshine and Clay is a composition of encounters with 11 living and 1 deceased titan of modern history.

>> i asked if he was worried the movie would not appeal to a broad audience. >> if its good enough, people are going to come. the minute black artists start thinking about crossover, they start diluting the work, watering it down, and the work suffers. >> when we look at the john singletons and the spikes, all the way across the board, this became the era where we took charge of our own culture, our own cultural icons, and telling our own stories expressed either in music or in theater or in cin...