Buffy Forever, Phillipa Soo Sings and Schmucks - This Week's Must Read

HERE ARE THIS WEEK'S BEST ARTICLES ABOUT THE PERFORMING ARTS AND CULTURE

• Phillipa Soo Sings "Times Are Hard for Dreamers" in This Amélie Bonus Track (TheaterMania)
• Theatres as Town Halls, With Politics (Occasionally) on the Agenda (American Theatre)
• On ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer,' we fell for the Slayer along with Angel, Riley and Spike (Washington Post)
• The opera about Walt Disney, and how Long Beach landed the U.S. premiere of 'The Perfect American' (LA Times)
• How Pasadena's A Noise Within theater troupe builds a future on the past (LA Times)
• On Schmucks, a Comedian Interviews People You Hate (Even Martin Shkreli) (LA Weekly)
• Shut down but not silenced: Isis play Homegrown demands to be staged (Guardian)
• Crossing Over: Arts, Military, and Passing to the Other Side (Howlround)
• Merce Cunningham as Collaborator, Breaking Down Hierarchies in Art and Bodies (NY Times)
• Theatre of the Oppressed in Iraq (Theatre Times)
• A Brief History of the Gender Parity Movement in Theatre (Howlround)
• The First U.S. Artist Ever Convicted of Obscenity Brings His Twisted Vision to L.A. (LA Weekly)

What "must read" stories in the arts did you encounter this week?

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