Matthew Desmond was in college when he learned that a bank had taken his boyhood home, forcing his parents to move. “I remember being deeply sad and embarrassed,” he writes. He began building houses with Habitat for Humanity, while studying poverty and visiting homeless people. In 2008 he moved into a trailer park in a poor Milwaukee neighborhood to learn more about landlords, … [Read more...]
As ever, Florida Stage fest finds plays with real promise
Now five years old, Florida Stage’s annual 1st Stage New Works Festival got the most important thing right immediately. Where too many reading series elsewhere are dead ends for the scripts being unveiled, the West Palm Beach company has been committed to graduating at least a couple of the festival entries to full production each year. This season, for instance, Florida … [Read more...]