Chicago Tribune, “Review: Tears and cheers at stirring true story of ‘Haymarket'”
A girl of roughly middle-school age was directly in my field of vision Saturday night at the Den Theatre’s mainstage. She was part of a large group of kids who had been taken to the show and, by the end of “Haymarket,” I could see that her eyes were flooded with tears. And her fellow […]
Chicago Tribune, “‘Haymarket’ back for Underscore’s 2017-18 season”
Closing out the season in May will be a revival of the folk-fueled “Haymarket: The Anarchist’s Songbook,” inspired by true events surrounding the 1886 Chicago bombing and riot. The musical, to be presented at a yet-to-be-announced venue, features book and lyrics by Alex Higgin-Houser and music by David Kornfeld. Continue Reading
The Weekly Standard, “Flowers in Their Hair”
Coyote — he chose the name after he saw coyote tracks in the snow; he was high at the time — is the most prominent surviving figure from the Summer of Love and the counterculture it encapsulated. He helped found the Diggers, a swashbuckling group of crypto-anarchists who moved among the hippies and tried to […]
Metro, “Who you gonna call? A real-life ghostbuster”
“The history of spiritualism in America ties into the history of the suffragette movement, the abolition movement, the labor movement, the anarchist movement,” says Hendrix. “So many people get hung up on the question of whether these mediums were actually talking to spirits or committing fraud, but if you ignore that question you’re still left […]
Capitol Hill Times (Seattle), “Brush up on your Shakespeare”
Alt-right vs. anarchists: The vendetta between hot-blooded Black Bloc and Proud Boy bravos is escalating from fists to knives and guns. This way madness lies. Continue Reading
The New York Times, “Heathcote Williams, Radical British Poet Who Helped Form Anarchist Nation, Dies at 75”
He became a leader of the squatter movement in the 1970s, directing homeless Londoners to available space through his agency Ruff Tuff Cream Puff. He also helped create the Free and Independent Republic of Frestonia, an anarchist country within a country, named after a nearby street, Freston Road. Located in the Notting Hill neighborhood, it issued […]
The Washington Post, “Heathcote Williams, British playwright and countercultural giant, dies at 75”
Heathcote Williams, a British playwright, poet, anarchist and magician who — in addition to founding a secessionist state with a group of London squatters — wrote one of the most acclaimed plays of the 1970s, along with best-selling poems about dolphins and whales, died July 1 at a hospital in Oxford, England. He was 75. […]
Ozarks Public Radio, “Real-Life Court Case Inspires Wild Comedy in ‘Accidental Death of an Anarchist'”
According to director Gretchen Teague, “What’s funny about this show, I think, is that it’s based in reality. There was this case of this anarchist who is questioned by police, and then accidently fell out the window (to his death).” Nathan Shelton indicates the “accidently” part should definitely be in quotation marks. “The ensuing trial […]
The Village Voice, “‘Julius Caesar’ Unleashes Right-wing Rage at Art, Liberals, and NYC”
“This is the fault of the left,” said a local board of supervisors chairman; Trump cheerleader Carl Higbie blamed “the Democratic Party, led by Maxine Waters, Nancy Pelosi, my home-state U.S. senator Chris Murphy” and “this childish, anarchist #Resist movement.” “A Virginia poll watcher” even told Boyer “she was spit upon and cursed at by […]
The New York Times, “Oskar Eustis: The First Time I Burned Money (and Found My Calling)”
The Living Theater, founded and run by Julian Beck and Judith Malina, was the legendary mother of us all. Founded in 1947 in New York as a European-style art theater, the Living (as it was known) soon morphed into one of the most politically radical and boldly adventurous theaters in American history. Its productions of […]