I’m impressed with the new adaptation and depressed that it’s considered necessary.
Book Review: Michelle Obama’s “Becoming” — Alone At Last With Lots She Wants to Say
Becoming is a contemporary woman’s adventure told by an intelligent, funny narrator who took a leap out of her comfort zone and came out of it, with her family intact, to tell the tale.
Book Review: “The Barefoot Woman” — A Survivor’s Eulogy
The Barefoot Woman is lyrical but also informative and ethnographic, as much a memoir of a mother as it is of her way of life.
Concert Review: Handel & Haydn’s “The Messiah”
I was excited, moved, impressed, and surprised by Handel & Haydn Society’s performance of The Messiah under the exacting baton of Bernard Labadie.
Opera Review: BLO’s “The Barber of Seville” — An Exhilarating Triumph
Every performance of opera should leave an audience so exhilarated.
Book Review: “A Life of My Own” — Reserved to a Fault
Claire Tomalin narrates her story with a prototypically English stiff upper lip, and a reticence about the personal.
Theater Review: “The Glass Menagerie” — Doing Justice to an American Classic
This is a first-rate production of a true American classic.
Book Review: “Another Life” — Curing Writer’s Block
This slender memoir reads like a rambling conversation with a literary stranger you meet on a train.
Theater Review: “Mothers and Sons” — An Elegant, Affecting Production
Mothers and Sons is one of veteran playwright Terrence NcNally’s finest works.
Theater Review: “West Side Story” — Still Brilliant After All These Years
The Barrington Stage Company’s moving and fiercely energetic production brings West Side Story back to the stage with a bang.