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Theater Review: Commonwealth Shakespeare Company’s Visceral “Birdy”

March 7, 2019
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Commonwealth Shakespeare Company’s production of Birdy is at its best when it focuses on the play’s central relationships.

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Television: PEN15 — Middle School Made Uproarious

March 7, 2019
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Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle turn in frequently hilarious but vulnerable performances as their adolescent counterparts.

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Book Review: “The Wages” — A Powerful Folk Tale About Slavery

March 6, 2019
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We need stories like The Wages to expose the hypocrisy and incoherence of the institutions that we are supposed to believe are pillars of justice.

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Poetry Review: “Peaches Goes It Alone” — A Comic Ode to the Age of Trump

March 6, 2019
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In the age of truthiness, poet Frederick Seidel’s is a welcome voice.

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Theater Review: “Once” — Everything Goes Brilliantly Right

March 5, 2019
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Once is a wonderful musical and the Speakeasy Stage production does exquisitely right by its considerable merits.

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Theater Review: “The Half-Light” — A Powerful Excursion into the Spirit World

March 4, 2019
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The Half-Light is a play about ghosts that, while offering intimations of mortality, ends up exuding a charming and infectious romantic spirit.

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Film Review: 5 Women Filmmakers — A Sampling of the Superb

March 2, 2019
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This is a finely-selected sampling of what some accomplished women filmmakers offered in 2018.

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Book Reviews: A Provocative Trio of Volumes on Architecture and Landscape Architecture

March 2, 2019
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In very different ways and on very different topics, three recent books assuage notions that architecture/design books are formidable reads.

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Author Interview: Writer Clive James — Writing Against the Dying of the Light

March 1, 2019
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Imagine a combination of Stephen Colbert (the real one, that is) and John Updike.

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Arts Fuse Podcast #11: Talking With Lloyd Schwartz — And Skinny Jerry Garcia and Nixon Read Poetry

March 1, 2019
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We were overjoyed to spend this episode with Pulitzer prize winning critic, poet, and teacher Lloyd Schwartz. Stick around for the poetry of Richard Milhous Nixon, too

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