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Sideshow Theatre Company has announced its 2021 Season, featuring an all-virtual line-up of entertainment. The season kicks-off this month with a one-night-only benefit screening of Sideshow's 2018 hit You For Me For You, written by Mia Chung and directed by Ensemble Member Elly Green. This summer, Sideshow presents a reading of Preston's Choi's new play Drive-In at the End of the World, directed by Associate Artistic Director Justin J. Sacramone and created through "The Freshness Initiative," Sideshow's new play development program. Throughout the year audiences can also enjoy the Sideshow H...

Alison Bechdel gives this year’s Bryant Lecture in an evening of sharp wit which will most definitely pass the Bechdel Test.

The Untold Truth Of I Love Lucy By Elizabeth Collins/Jan. 29, 2021 4:36 pm EDT/Updated: Feb. 1, 2021 9:12 am EDT At the dawn of the post-war era, when owning a television had just become commonplace, and the idea of the ideal housewife was paramount, I Love Lucy premiered. It was an instant hit all over the United States — which was surprising given the groundbreaking nature of the show. It was the first program on television to feature a multiethnic family, Lucille Ball and her real-life husband Desi Arnaz, who was born in Cuba. While not technically the first to have a pregnant woman ...

The devastation of the Trump administration – to norms and values and public safety, to the climate and the environment and the rights of marginalized groups – is huge and undeniable. But Pablo Neruda’s old axiom “You can cut down the flowers but you can’t stop the spring” might describe what happened. Despite opposition, persecution and real losses, movements for liberation and justice continued to expand not only in power and achievement but...

Looking back over the past four years, another kind of expansive and hopeful spaciousness can be found. Mostly these four years will be recounted as far-right brutality against truth, fact, rights and bodies, and that brutality and its consequences mattered. But that’s not all that happened since 2016. Grassroots movements for racial and gender justice, economic justice, climate justice and intersectional understanding of the relationships between these things grew in power, achievement and perspective. The white-supremacist and cult-follower assault on the Capitol on 6 January was histo...