Archive for the ‘Reviews’ Category

White Noise

White Noise
While indulging in a late afternoon nap, I was awakened by a phone call from a dear friend inviting me to see “White Noise: A Cautionary Musical” at the Royal George Theatre in Chicago. Produced by Whoopi Goldberg, and inspired by real-life singing white separatist twins, Lamb and Lynx Gaede,...
May 18th, 2011 | Culture, Reviews, The Arts | Read More

Enuf talk about men, focus on the women: A review of Tyler Perry’s “For Colored Girls”

Enuf talk about men, focus on the women: A review of Tyler Perry’s “For Colored Girls”
Tyler Perry’s recent film For Colored Girls, based on the “choreo-poem” written by Ntozake Shange, explores the poetic, theatrical and existential aspects of living in the world as a woman of colour.  Shange’s play, whose full title is “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the...
January 6th, 2011 | Culture, Featured, Reviews, Women | Read More

Don’t rush for David Mamet’s Race

Don’t rush for David Mamet’s Race
Crossposted from Colorlines Magazine Web Exclusive With a title as bold as Race, I was prepared for this play to go where no performance had before. Director David Mamet described his production as “a play about lies,” including the hidden truth that “there has always been, at the very least, a...
February 16th, 2010 | Culture, Reviews | Read More

The unfortunate misdirection of a journey into whiteness

The unfortunate misdirection of a journey into whiteness
Originally published at Psychology Today’s Between the Lines blog (original post) Rich Benjamin, an African American journalist (yes, his race matters) spent over two years (2007-2009) criss-crossing the country, traveling some 27,000 miles to document the latest manifestation of “white flight”...
December 1st, 2009 | Reviews | Read More

District 9 – An allegory of apartheid and segregation

District 9 – An allegory of apartheid and segregation
The new Peter Jackson film, “District 9,” opened at the top of the US box office this past weekend. The film is a mock documentary covering the events surrounding the arrival of an alien spacecraft to planet earth. A spaceship mysteriously appears above Johannesburg, South Africa. After several months...
August 19th, 2009 | Reviews, Talk About Race | Read More