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Book Review: “In the Galway Silence” — Another Tour of Hell

December 15, 2018
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Jack Taylor’s world is very much our world and his despair is our despair.

Film Review: “Ben is Back” — Raising an Addict

December 15, 2018
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Films like Ben is Back will not foster an understanding of how drug addiction ravages the lives of the poor, the incarcerated, the uneducated, and the less fortunate.

Film Review: “Roma” — A Soulful Masterpiece

December 14, 2018
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Roma is Alfonso Cuarón’s gorgeous, neorealist ode to his formative years growing up in ’70s Mexico City, and to the housekeeper he took for granted as she carried him through that tumultuous decade.

Stage Remembrance: Words on the Death of Alvin Epstein — “Nothing is Left to Tell”

December 13, 2018
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I speak for the legions who benefitted from your friendship and your great energy and talent.

Book Review: “Playing Changes” — Redefining Jazz

December 13, 2018
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This volume is clearly critic Nate Chinen’s resounding response to the “jazz is dead” chant.

Arts Remembrance: Pete Shelley of the Buzzcocks — A Matter of the Heart

December 12, 2018
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Pete Shelley’s elegies for the wilted flowers of romance were shouted over songs that were alternately tuneful and fierce.

Theater Review: “The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane” — Rabbit Transit

December 11, 2018
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The company’s staging is dynamic and vivacious, and the unconventional seating arrangements give audience members the chance to place themselves in the center of the action.

Classical CD Review: Best Opera Recording of the Year — Or is it Best Musical?

December 11, 2018
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None of the opera recordings I have reviewed this past year beats this Cradle for dramatic vitality, musical imagination, and ongoing political relevance.

Theater Review: “Breath & Imagination” — An Indomitable Voice

December 11, 2018
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The success or failure of this show rests primarily on the physical presence, voice and acting of the actor playing the celebrated lyric tenor Roland Hayes.

Theater Review: “Man in the Ring” — A Precipitous Fall

December 10, 2018
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Acclaimed playwright and screenwriter Michael Cristofer’s script is very open about portraying Emile Griffith’s sexuality.

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