Theater Review | 'No End of Blame': Not Even Free Speech Is Without Costs
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Howard Barkerâs 1981 political drama about a dissident cartoonist provides more questions than answers about the challenges facing truly free speech.
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Comment is free: Madeleine Bunting: It is not anti-choice to want a more thoughtful debate on why women have so many abortions.
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Comment is free: Nick Cohen: Scientologists and rich foreigners know that they can rely on our judges to gag critics
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Tom Stoppardâs brilliance, while on obvious display in âThe Coast of Utopia,â is not serving the playwrightâs ostensible goal of creating a satisfactory work of dramatic art.
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Comment is free: Five years ago, the biggest political protest in our history served to explode the myth  of public apathy
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David Greig's new play is more pedantic than discomfiting, despite the ugly immediacy of the events it portrays.
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And other revelations from Bob Shrum's No Excuses: Concessions of a Serial Campaigner. An exclusive excerpt
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Comment is free: Marcel Berlins: The reason I'm writing about Redwood is not to discuss the merits of his argument - there are none
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Tycho:  It's been a couple weeks discussing reviews and reviewers around here, but somewhere along the way I neglected to mention that their job is essentially impossible.  The 7-9 scale they toil under is largely the result of an uneasy peace between the business and editorial wings of the venue.  No matter what score they give it, high or low, they're reviled equally by the online chorus.  Apparently, even when they do it right they're doing it wrong.
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A business course on cutthroat capitalism disguised as a slacker comedy: Thatâs the kindest way to describe Michael Lehmannâs âFlakes.â
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A new arts festival tries to show why political theater doesn't have to taste like medicine.
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&quot;Our system is based on freedom of speech,&quot; said Nathan Melton of Spanish Fork. Whether people agree with someone&#39;s opinions or not, each person has the right to be heard.
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Nevermind the civil war debate -- the real question is why didn't the U.S. make a war declaration in the first place? That could bring an end to something that never should have been started
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Academic freedom has never completely protected professors who make unpopular statements. One was fired in 1960 for suggesting that premarital sex among students could be a good thing. Three decades later, a department chair was demoted for saying a Jewish conspiracy denigrated blacks in the movies.
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Playbill - LAByrinth Theatre Company productions frequently reach down into the lower depths of society, and its new offering, Brett C. Leonard's Unconditional, looks to follow in that tradition.
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Revolutionary or unreadable? The long, strange afterlife of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest
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An Ohio case may be a victory for free speech, but taxpayers will end up footing the bill. Why not hold politicians responsible for paying to defend unconstitutional laws in court?