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The Public Theater today announced the cancellation of the 18th annual UNDER THE RADAR FESTIVAL, running January 12-30, 2022. According to their web site, 'IMPORTANT UPDATE: Thank you for being a member of The Public Theater community, and Happy New Year. 

The festival resumes live performances for its 2022 season.

12:00 AM DISROBED - THE VIRTUAL EVENT - The Covid masks are finally coming off - and so is everything else! The Hollywood Fringe Festival comedy hit "Disrobed: Why So Clothes Minded?" returns online in a new encore Zoom presentation with an all new national cast, more outrageous and more naked than ever, and for one weekend only, May 20-23. Its "Meet the Parents" - with Nudists! Only one online "ticket" is required for each household or device, and the show may be viewed at any time on demand d...

8:00 AM Drift by Daniel Wohl - Commissioned by iSing Silicon Valley Girlchoir - Commissioned by iSing, Drift is a five-minute multimedia work for treble choir, electronics, acoustic instruments, and video. It is iSings first multimedia, and entirely digital commission. Drift will debut on May 15th at 8am on iSings YouTube channel. The piece will also be a part of their concert, Choosing Harmony. click here 10:30 AM Sonia De Los Santos - Children and grownups of all backgrounds adore the joyful ...

10:30 AM And in This Corner: Cassius Clay-Community Listening Party - Every hero starts somewhere. For 12-year-old Cassius Clay Jr., who would become the sports legend known to the world as Muhammad Ali, it was a boxing gym in Louisville, Kentucky. This is the swift and vibrant origin story of how a determined young boy growing up in the Jim Crow South took on all challengers in his path to becoming...The Greatest. An unlikely hero is a classic story, but And in This Corner goes an extra, exhil...

The 10 Very Best Movies of 2021 (So Far) Warner Bros/Getty Images/A24 Its hard to know if the world will ever feel “normal” again, but we all keep puttering along, including the troubled movie industry. Although many major theatrical releases have gone straight to streaming or VOD, the movies released in the first half of this year consider intriguing questions. From the efficacy of collective action to the role of political education, the impact of the media and suffocating families or jo...

Review: A Black commune weighs the past, present and future in The Inheritance Sarah-Tai Black © Provided by The LA Times Chris Jarrell, from left, Nozipho Mclean and Eric Lockley in the movie "The Inheritance." (Grasshopper Film) What might a collectively authored Black future look like? For creative polymath Ephraim Asili, it is one that knows its past as well as its present. With his feature-length debut film "The Inheritance," the West Philadelphia-raised, New York-based...

A celebration of Black artists and revolutionaries, Ephraim Asilis debut feature was inspired by Godards La Chinoise. Ephraim Asili calls his first feature-length film a remix of La Chinoise, Jean-Luc Godards 1967 mélange of Maoist politics among idealistic young Parisians. With energy and wit, he achieves his goal of creating "a critique and an homage at the same time," but you dont need to be familiar with the earlier work to appreciate The Inheritance. It stands solidly on its own as a dy...

Print What might a collectively authored Black future look like? For creative polymath Ephraim Asili, it is one that knows its past as well as its present. With his feature-length debut film “The Inheritance,” the West Philadelphia-raised, New York-based filmmaker presents a reflectively avant-garde portrait of the connective threads between community making, historical archives and political awakening. Shaping an easy bricolage of what Asili refers to as a “speculative reenactment” of...

For the most part, an “inheritance” left to you by an older relative or loved one is considered a personalized, even intimate, gift. An heirloom, perhaps, or a collection of items, or maybe even a certain amount of money, or a home—some sort of one-to-one relationship between the person doing the giving, and the person doing the receiving. And Ephraim Asili’s feature-length debut film “The Inheritance” begins with that setup: a young man inherits a West Philadelphia rowhome left to ...