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...mandatory fingerprinting at the door, beefy guards keeping watch by the wings and five-centimeter-thick bars on all the windows. And it's not the show in the West End. This week, for a few hours a night, the inmates at Bronzefield Prison are trading searchlights for the spotlight. The prison gym has been transformed into a small theater, with an orchestra pit at the back and a two-tier stage on which 17 women - all cleavage and fishnets - strut their stuff with the kind of attitude drama school just can't teach. Two weeks ago, rehearsals were still...
Summers’ Judaism entered the spotlight a year into his tenure, when he famously said a petition urging the University to divest from Israel was one of several actions that were “anti-Semitic in their effect if not their intent...
...beyond the realm of possibility that some of the noise is caused by what amounts to racism. Some U.S. citizens, for whom the designation “Arab” is synonymous with little more than “terrorist,” have managed to wrestle the spotlight onto themselves with misguided claims. Our enemies in the Arab world claim that the West categorically hates Arabs. The type of Islamo-phobia arguing against the ports’ sale plays directly into their hands and needs to be checked immediately. In a broader lens, this issue highlights the reality that...
...performed off-Broadway in 1996 and chronicles the thematically similar, but distinct, stories of the more than 200 women who Ensler interviewed. Since its inception, the play has become a cultural phenomenon, tied to raising awareness of violence against women. Proceeds from this production went to V-Day 2006 Spotlight Global Campaign on Comfort Women, the Network/La Red, the Louisiana Coalition Against Domestic Violent for victims of Hurricane Katrina, and El Amel Centers in Sudan...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC), a board of directors, actors, and producers that decides which plays will be performed each season and monitors administrative details, controls this inner sanctum of the theater world. These are self-proclaimed "theater people"—loud, boisterous, and comfortable in the spotlight...