Elegance and Irony
In 1834, 14-year-old Afong Moy (Barbie Wu) arrives in New York City from China’s Guangzhou Province. Sold as chattel by her family, she will perform in a museum to paying gawkers. She will [...]
Sex scandal rocks Salem, Oregon
High school senior Howie (Dominique Francis) lies on a bed in his spartan room texting with an older man about hooking up. We can see the entire encounter on a huge mobile device forming the [...]
The short, sad, triumphant life of Frida Kahlo
When Mr. Powell arrives for his interview at La Casa Azul, the famous and infamous Frida Kahlo is abed, as she mostly was during the last few years of her life. Her snarky greeting to Powell [...]
Of Baking and a Slave Insurrection that never happened
When Martha Washington (Melanie Moseley) appears bound and gagged with an apple, in her own kitchen, a mere few days after the death of her husband and our first President George Washington, [...]
A Scottish legend comes to the stage
Oh you’ll take the high road and I’ll take the low road, and I’ll be in Scotland before ye…. We all know at least some of the words to the traditional Scottish ballad [...]