When adults can get high-quality entertainment from VOD, Netflix or Hulu, to the point where a show like You can bomb on Lifetime but become a buzzy Netflix sensation (partially due to the media crowning every new Netflix show as "your next Netflix obsession"), they don't need to go to theaters to see high-quality, challenging, topical, character-driven adult entertainment.
They were composed by numerous authors and for various purposes, some of them, no doubt, strictly pedagogical or scholarly; but we will here only mention two examples of a slightly more topical and literary character.
Yet underneath the topical concerns, the characters are set aflame by the timeless spirit of revolutionaries.
Many, including the portrait of Nicholas Kratzer, on this month's cover of Emerging Infectious Diseases, place the sitter in a topical context, providing valuable character clues and social commentary.
"Beetle Bailey" has never been an aggressively topical strip, but certain characters have been introduced at opportune moments.
The show has become a touchstone to many generations by combining humor that is both topical and universal with characters who are caricatures in themselves.
It seems like once again we're here with a character that feels topical.
It is this focus on character consistency and topical scientific themes that has distinguished Jurassic Park from all of its sequels.
And in any case, far more of the pair's characters depict not topical phenomena but timeless social types: the Scousers, the Old Gits and so on.
Ms. Nottage, the wide-ranging and increasingly confident author of "Intimate Apparel" and "Fabulation or, the Re-Education of Undine," hooks her audience with promises of a conventionally structured, purposefully plotted play, stocked with sympathetic characters and informative topical detail.
