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2021 didn't quite go as planned for stage performances, but our critic has several memories to cherish.

Lesson for UCSB: Daylight is recommended in prison design. Plus, SoCal inspires a composer, and Culture Clash revives 'Chavez Ravine,' in our weekly arts newsletter

Now receiving its world premiere at Echo Theater Co., Chiara Atik's production offers a drolly modern take on the life of St. Clare of Assisi.

Second Thought Theatre has announced their full production of Sweetpea. As the closing production of the 2021 season, Sweetpea will serve as the theatre’s first in-person production in 18 months.

Sandra Milo torna in scena a teatro ed è «veramente contenta». Dopo lo stop a causa della pandemia torna a calcare i palcoscenici teatrali con uno spettacolo esilarante. Una...

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This interactive play gives voice to marginalized people, while also asking its audience to mistrust them. Clockwise, from top left: Amy K. Harmon, Roland Ruiz, Darrett Sanders, Gloria Ines and Mia Ando in the play “Underneath the Freeways of Los Angeles.”Credit...via The Echo Theater Company April 5, 2021 Cities bury their histories beneath them, though the past persists in plain sight. Here in New York, Wall Street whispers of a long-ago barrier, Canal Street commemorates forgotten ...

From ‘Redneck Shop’ to racial reconciliation UofSC alum works to replace hate with hope Posted on: February 25, 2021; Updated on: February 25, 2021 It was the spring of 2018 and Regan Freeman was studying in one of the cubicles deep inside Thomas Cooper Library when he stumbled upon a 60 Minutes story. Oprah Winfrey and attorney Bryan Stevenson were touring the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama, a monument to the ...

TACA expanding Pop-Up Grant program with Artist Bonus funds Feb 1, 2021 | Kateri Cale, artistic director of Echo Theatre. Echo received a Pop-Up Grant from TACA last fall. The Arts Community Alliance has announced an expansion of its Pop-Up Grant program to include Artist Bonus funds, a new source of funding for individual artists, providing them financial support while the arts continue to feel the impact of the pandemic, while extending the program through 2021. The addition of the artist bo...

Former White Supremacist Store and Klan Meeting Space is Being Turned Into a Community Center to Promote Healing Jan 27, 2021 One of the surest ways to keep history from repeating itself is to shine a light in its darkest corners, and that’s exactly what this 67-year-old reverend has set out to do in the town of Laurens, South Carolina. Reverend David Kennedy outside the Echo Theater In 2019, Rev. David Kennedy and local historian Regan Freeman established the Echo Foundation. Its mission: tr...