Afton Okwu

Rejecting theatrical realism, “Nollywood Dreams” isn’t afraid of a pratfall, melodramatic line readings and fourth wall demolition.

“There is no better tool to cut through barriers and walls we've put up other than telling our stories to one another,” Harris said of his work as an instructor. “There is a power in storytelling for both the listener and the teller.” 

With its gifted cast and a playwright with an expansive vision, “Train Stories” is a play of extensive scope and simple scale. It challenges ideas on what it means to do the right thing, and how the everyday is constantly informed by the past.

Released on Sept. 1, “Keep Going Up” is early 2000s nostalgia at a low meridian: simultaneously at its peak and at a soporific low. 

“Moonage Daydream” frames Bowie in the holy glow of a human deity, dissecting the particularities of his supernovaic celebrity and reputation for the fantastic.

“Inside” has a lot going for it — an enticing premise, an actor who can more than hold their own alone and an obvious passion from those involved — but the story collapses in on itself.

“The Haight-Ashbury Experience and the Pursuit of Happiness: The Photography of Herb Greene” is a perfect time capsule, stills from '60s San Francisco preserved in time.

Born out of Indigenous American and African textiles, the Gee’s Bend quilts have come to represent the fortitude of African American culture.

As we each take our moment of transitory reprieve — whether by train, plane, car or subway — here are some songs to offer an empathetic companion.

Hosted by the ever-spooky and legendarily kooky John Waters, the festival was a love letter signed in blood to all things anomalous.