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Theater for the many

In 2023, a friend took me to a night of off-Broadway theater in downtown Manhattan. A small audience gathered in a black box performance space to watch a series of tenderly performed short plays — ...
Some mornings, just before he dashes off to the University of Texas campus to teach a playwriting class, Steven Dietz will get on Google, type in his name and the title of one of his 30 plays, and ...
The working class, a large majority of the workforce and its most racially and ethnically diverse group, faces low pay and higher unemployment. Many policymakers today claim to speak for the struggles ...
Mr. Kuhn, a producer of the forthcoming PBS documentary “Hard Hat Riot,” is the author of “The Hardhat Riot: Nixon, New York City, and the Dawn of the White Working-Class Revolution.” Democrats are ...