Mattana's character, Owen, a particularly slick operator, immediately suggests a cleverly bloodless semantic argument about the definition of feminism—frame it as white and middle-class..."We believe feminism has failed women from the perspective that we are actually more feminist than the feminists,' he announces with self-satisfaction.
They put this tennis court in the back; it's just awful," said Cole Escola, channeling Edith Bouvier Beale. Escola was taking a break from their Tony Award-winning performance as an over-the-top Mary Todd Lincoln in their hit play, to visit Grey Gardens, no longer the crumbling estate of Beale's day thanks to its new owner, the designer Liz Lange.
Harrison David Rivers reflects that his play, This Bitter Earth, contrasts the different perspectives of political engagement and personal survival within Black identities.
In Evgeny Shvarts' adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's The Shadow, silhouettes morph into independent entities, reflecting individuals' inner darkness and the struggle for self-acceptance.
We have a counterfeit democracy, where big money pulls the strings," the chorus shouts in the production's overheated conclusion. "Billionaires will soon be trillionaires, while blaming the poor for all the things.