The MacArthur Fellowship genius grant recipient draws on her deep knowledge of jazz, gospel and more for the orchestra’s experimental concert series. Composer and pianist Courtney Bryan is curating ...
In the late 1990s, Lauren Francis-Sharma attended the Truth and Reconciliation Commission amnesty hearings when she briefly lived in Johannesburg while attending law school. The hearings were set up ...
Ali Benjamin, whose bestselling novel “The Thing About Jellyfish” has been adapted into a new play at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, knows it can be easy to misinterpret a young person’s silence. Her ...