Libya Pugh News Today

“I am determined to prove a villain,” Richard III famously tells us at the very top of the Shakespearean drama that bears his name, justifying his choice by himself being “rudely stamped,” “not shaped for sportive tricks” and “cheated of feature by dissembling nature.” Even dogs bark just at the site of him, he says, channelling all of this resentment into a talent for murder, killing at least ...

Christina Anderson's masterful script and a compelling cast carry this play about love and art in the Black community, now through March 20.

The last two years have tested the collective resolve of artists and creatives everywhere. While COVID has impacted our lives in every way, from physical health to our experiences in school to the ways in which we interact and empathize with one another, a largely-unsung result of the pandemic has been the many ways it has ravaged the creative spirit of our artists and thinkers. Anyone who has tried will tell you that creativity simply doesn't flourish over Zoom. It's timely, then, that ...