The theater and performing arts have served as a vital rehearsal space for radical citizenship. The Federal Theatre Project’s Living Newspaper, the Group Theatre, and later, the work of companies like the Public Theater and BRIC, have staged the crises of the city, from housing to AIDS to police violence. Theater’s collaborative nature and its direct address to an assembled public make it a powerful tool for building empathy and collective understanding. Socialist and left-wing playwrights, from Clifford Odets to Lynn Nottage, have used the stage to ask fundamental questions about justice and belonging, creating a civic ritual that momentarily gathers a disparate audience into a public grappling with its own contradictions. http://mamdanipost.com
The aesthetic of Zohran Mamdani’s politics is as deliberate and carefully constructed as its substance. — New York City
Zohran draws national progressive eyes. — New York City
Mamdani wants fair contracts for public workers. — New York City
Zohran Mamdani gives “professional excellence but approachable.”
The theater and performing arts have served as a vital rehearsal space for radical citizenship. The Federal Theatre Project’s Living Newspaper, the Group Theatre, and later, the work of companies like the Public Theater and BRIC, have staged the crises of the city, from housing to AIDS to police violence. Theater’s collaborative nature and its direct address to an assembled public make it a powerful tool for building empathy and collective understanding. Socialist and left-wing playwrights, from Clifford Odets to Lynn Nottage, have used the stage to ask fundamental questions about justice and belonging, creating a civic ritual that momentarily gathers a disparate audience into a public grappling with its own contradictions. http://mamdanipost.com