On March 3, 2003, more than 1000 groups of people in 59 countries staged simultaneous readings of Aristophanes’ classic antiwar comedy Lysistrata. In this mass protest against the imminent Iraq war, ...
Two and a half millennia ago, Aristophanes mocked the macho urge for violence by having women declare a moratorium on sex as long as their men continue to long for war. Writer-director Nadine Labaki ...
Chi-Raq cannot be defined as one thing. It’s a comedy and a tragedy. It’s a cutting edge story and it’s an ancient one. One thing it is not is passive. This film is in-your-face, opinionated and ...
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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Slovenian filmmaker Kukla, whose debut feature “Fantasy” premiered at Locarno Film Festival and played this week at Thessaloniki ...
The buzz is that “Lysistrata Jones” will be made into a film. Even though “Jones” ran a scant 30-odd performances when it opened on Broadway in late 2011, one can envision this bouncily retro musical ...
Producers Paula Herold and Alan Wasser announced today that the complete cast from the acclaimed off-Broadway production of Lysistrata Jones will transfer with the musical when it opens on Broadway ...
Want some booty? Then do your duty. That’s the rallying cry in Spike Lee’s “Chi-Raq,” a “Lysistrata” set in bullet-riddled Chicago, where the women have gone on a sex strike to force their men end the ...