Archive: Theater

• WCP: Everybody Knows About Alabama

  The 1963 KKK bombing of an African-American church in Birmingham resulting in the death of four adolescent girls inspired Nina Simone to write protest songs. Decades later, Doug Jones made the successful prosecution of two of the bombers part of his Alabama U.S. Senate campaign against Roy Moore. In this week’s Working-Class Perspective, Sherry Linkon and John Russo discuss how history, politics, and culture are woven together in Christina Ham’s play with music, Nina Simone: Four Women.

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Alabama, Civil Rights, Doug Jones, John Russo, Nina Simone, Racial Justice, Sherry Linkon, Theater, WCP, Women, Working-Class Perspectives

• WCP: Losing More than a Paycheck: Race and Class Conflict in Two New Plays

  In the United States, we perceive deindustrialization to be behind us, but the recent closing of the Carrier plant in Indiana reminds us that industrialization is a continuing phenomenon. In this we

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Economic Inequality, Inequality, John Russo, Race, Reading, Sherry Linkon, Skeleton Crew, Sweat, Theater, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives