Helen Epstein

Theater Review: “The Goat or, Who is Sylvia?” — Greek Tragedy, Updated to Shock

May 28, 2019
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Edward Albee’s provocative theatrical exercise is far trickier to realize onstage than it is to appreciate on paper.

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Book Review: Anne Frank’s Diary — The Graphic Version

February 9, 2019
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I’m impressed with the new adaptation and depressed that it’s considered necessary.

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Book Review: Michelle Obama’s “Becoming” — Alone At Last With Lots She Wants to Say

January 17, 2019
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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.

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Book Review: “The Barefoot Woman” — A Survivor’s Eulogy

December 19, 2018
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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.

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Concert Review: Handel & Haydn’s “The Messiah”

December 4, 2018
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I was excited, moved, impressed, and surprised by Handel & Haydn Society’s performance of The Messiah under the exacting baton of Bernard Labadie.

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Opera Review: BLO’s “The Barber of Seville” — An Exhilarating Triumph

October 16, 2018
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Every performance of opera should leave an audience so exhilarated.

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Book Review: “A Life of My Own” — Reserved to a Fault

October 16, 2018
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Claire Tomalin narrates her story with a prototypically English stiff upper lip, and a reticence about the personal.

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Theater Review: “The Glass Menagerie” — Doing Justice to an American Classic

October 9, 2018
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This is a first-rate production of a true American classic.

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Book Review: “Another Life” — Curing Writer’s Block

September 17, 2018
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This slender memoir reads like a rambling conversation with a literary stranger you meet on a train.

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Theater Review: “Mothers and Sons” — An Elegant, Affecting Production

August 21, 2018
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Mothers and Sons is one of veteran playwright Terrence NcNally’s finest works.

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