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Wilson's views haven't changed. The plight of black theater, he says, is even worse today, while color-blind casting has exploded--Denzel Washington in Julius Caesar and James Earl Jones in On Golden Pond on Broadway this spring alone. "If I see a production of Gem of the Ocean with a white cast, maybe I'll change my mind. But Death of a Salesman with a black cast--that's not the way blacks respond to this problem. It's a white play. It's intended to be." He realizes that is not a popular view among African...
...assured. That has not prevented the nominee, however, from moving through his to-do list. Government sources tell TIME that after he was nominated in early March, Bolton requested that all American employees of the U.S. mission to the U.N. submit their résumés for review. The move cast a chill over the operation, where some saw it as presumptuous. It may also have been premature. --With reporting by Massimo Calabresi, John F. Dickerson, Michael Duffy, Viveca Novak, Elaine Shannon, Mark Thompson and Adam Zagorin/Washington
...more popular, but this unassuming octopus and his pals offer a treat for preschoolers (and their parents) ready to turn the volume down a notch. The show stands out from its brasher peers with its dreamlike look and sound: pastel art, a lilting sound track and a cast that includes a daisy, a snowman and Weenie, a dog shaped like a frank-furter (complete with...
...encompass people that are not just descendants of a particular ethnicity, but that simply have an interest in that ethnicity and its concomitant culture. The South Asian Association’s main cultural production, Ghungroo, swells every year in participation, particularly from non-South Asian individuals. Last year its cast was more than 20 percent “not-brown,” and its audience was even more diverse. Self-segregation is not the intention behind cultural celebration; rather, it is the antithesis. Cultural celebrations create spaces for social harmony through interaction, involvement, and empathy—making insiders...
Getting his stories from the newspapers has created a broad commentary on our political environment, which Solondz thinks is fertile ground for storytellers of all stripes, saying “if you were Stanley Kubrick and were making a movie about 9/11 you would cast George W. Bush as the president. It’s so rich that it’s almost hard to understand how people could have trouble finding ideas...