From left: Ahkei Togun, Fana Minea Tesfagiorgis, Rama Orleans-Lindsay and Luis Kelly-Duarte in “Red Harlem” at Company of Angels (Photo by Rafael Cardenas) I t’s 1932, and in the midst of Hoover’s bid for reelection during the early years of the Great Depression, a member of Stalin’s Communist Party turns up in Harlem, New York, joins forces with the first Black candidate to run on a presidential ticket, and recruits a group of Black actors and performers to sail to the USSR

From top: Nicholas Clary (Alexander) and Andrew Byron (Aristotle) in Alex Lyras's "Aristotle/Alexander" at Company of Angels (Photo courtesy Aristotle-Alexander) Though Alexander the Great’s conquests of Persia and part of Asia circa 330 BCE still make him a household name almost anywhere in the world, most of us don’t think about his teachers. Alex Lyras's play “Aristotle/Alexander” explores that influence — Alexander’s mentors here shown to be Aristotle and, in a different