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I Am The Queen
In the heart of Chicago ‘s Humboldt Park, a predominantly Puerto Rican community there is an air of excitement at the small Vida/SIDA Office. They have just announced plans for the 3rd Annual Paseo Boricua Beauty Pageant which had been established initially as the Center Director considered the local transgender community as the most marginalized section…
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99 Homes
When unemployed construction worker Dennis Nash finally gets evicted from his family house that he had been desperately trying against all odds to hang onto, he and his pre-teen son Connor, and his hairdresser mother get unceremoniously dumped with all their possession on their front lawn by the Bailiffs. The year is 2010 and their…
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What Our Fathers Did
When the British/French renowned human rights lawyer Phillipe Sands was doing research for a book he was writing about crimes against humanity he came across two elderly German/Austrian men. One was Niklas Frank who’s father was Hans Frank, Hitler’s personal lawyer and, from October 1939, governor-general of Nazi-occupied Poland, which came to include Galicia. The other…
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Macbeth (of the Oppressed)
There are seemingly endless ways to play any of Shakespeare’s great classic dramas and NY gets to see yet another interpretation of his Scottish tragedy Macbeth this Fall. Fab Marquee Productions are presenting Macbeth (of the Oppressed) at The 14th Street Y which will feature two real-life husbands in the starring roles, and with most of…
