WABE 90.1 (Atlanta), “Atlanta Playwright Finds Her ‘Rah’ With Punk Ukulele Musical”
This “angriest girl,” the 19-year-old Ash, is played by music director Sarah Beth Moseley. She says her character’s bucket-beating anarchist drummer has “completely revolted against the machine.” Continue Reading
The Island Now, “Going Places Near and Far… Come to San Francisco for 50th Anniversary Celebration of Summer of Love – Be Prepared to Be Blasted into the Past”
One day, The Diggers gave away free food on the steps of City Hall, which enraged San Francisco’s mayor. “’We are not a charity,’ the Diggers declared,” Wes tells us. “’We are an anarchist organization doing what government should do’.” (a philosophy that is reemergent with the anti-Trump activism) It was the act of it, […]
The Washington Post, “‘Ragtime’ sings with purpose at Ford’s Theatre”
The socialist-anarchist Emma Goldman (Rayanne Gonzales) gets wheeled around on one of two tall mobile-stair units, inciting a combustible crowd with her fiery rhetoric. Continue Reading
Out Magazine, “Justin Vivian Bond’s LIVE IDEAS Series ‘Mx’d Messages’ Reimagines a World Without Binaries”
Justin Vivian Bond: My entire perspective on life changed at an arts and music festival at the York Theater on Mission St. in May, 1989. It was a two-day festival called “Homocore,” and it was my first exposure to the queer anarchist scene that led me to become the performer I am today. Two of the […]
Philly.com, “MARCUS/EMMA: Revolution for a world and two bodies”
The FBI hounded and imprisoned Emma Goldman (1869-1940), too. An Eastern European Jewish anarchist, a proponent of free love and economic equality, “Red Emma” was a powerful orator, inciting crowds to protest. Her legacy can be seen in the Women’s Liberation Movement and the Occupy Movement. She founded the magazine Mother Earth. Best quote: “If I can’t […]
Chicago Sun Times, “‘Winterset’ a tale of guilt, innocence and justice denied”
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were Italian-American anarchists and immigrants who were convicted of murdering a guard and a paymaster during the armed robbery of a Massachusetts shoe company in 1920. Their case attracted international attention, for despite appeals in which recanted testimony, conflicting ballistics evidence, a prejudicial pre-trial statement by the jury foreman, and a […]