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Jim Kates

Theater Review: “Robert Frost: This Verse Business” — Friendly to a Fault

The overall effect is one of a genial, superficial club lecture on reading and writing poetry, punctuated by Frost’s Greatest Hits.

By: Jim Kates Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: American poetry, Gordon Clapp, Jim Kates, Robert Frost, Robert Frost: This Verse Business

Theater Review: “Rose” — A Well-Acted Excursion in Storytelling

Carolyn Michel’s Rose is the sociable stranger on the bus who tempts you to miss your stop so you can hear her out to the end.

By: Jim Kates Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Carolyn Michel, Jim Kates, Martin Sherman, Peterborough Players, Rose

Theater Review: “She Loves Me” — Amiably Unambitious

This review, like the opening night of She Loves Me, is dedicated to the life and work of the late producer Harold Prince.

By: Jim Kates Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Jim Kates, Peterborough Players, She Loves Me

Theater Review: “Gertrude Stein and a Companion” — A Satisfying Dramatic Fusion

In two short acts, playwright Win Wells depicts not so much a relationship as a fusion, a merging of identities into one single, complex personality.

By: Jim Kates Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Gertrude Stein and a Companion, Jim Kates, Peterborough Players, Win Wells

Theater Review: “Mahida’s Extra Key to Heaven” — Conversation as an Act of Healing

Written more than a decade ago, Mahida’s Extra Key to Heaven falls all too painfully closely in line with current events.

By: Jim Kates Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Mahida's Extra Key to Heaven, Peterborough Players, Russell Davis

Theater Review: “The Man of Destiny” — A Shavian McGuffin

George Bernard Shaw’s The Man of Destiny could be an evening of delight with a frisson of cerebral exercise.

By: Jim Kates Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: George-Bernard-Shaw, Peterborough Players, The Man of Destiny

Theater Review: “The Skin of Our Teeth” — As Dark as the Daily News

Thornton Wilder’s Big Ideas do not get lost in the hurly-burly of this production.

By: Jim Kates Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Gus Kaikkonen, Jim Kates, Peterborough Players, The Skin of Our Teeth, Thornton Wilder

Theater Review: Peterborough Players’s “Ripcord” — Arguing for a Full Life

David Lindsay-Abaire’s tightly woven comic script celebrates the everyday relationships that make up an argument for a full life.

By: Jim Kates Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: David Lindsay-Abaire, Jim Kates, Peterborough Players, Ripcord

Poetry Review: The Golden Age of Russian Poetry — Revisited

Here, then, are two books that provide a fine literary introduction to one of the richest flowerings of poetry in European culture.

By: Jim Kates Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: A Science Not For the Earth: Selected Poems & Letters, Columbia University Press, Konstantin Batyushkov, Peter France, Ugly Duckling Presse, Writings From the Golden Age of Russian Poetry, Yevgeny Baratynsky

Book Review: “Time of Gratitude” — The Quiet Happiness of Being Unnecessary

Russian poet Gennady Aygi wrote as an outsider, an ethnic outlier as well as a free-verse stylist of his generation.

By: Jim Kates Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: Gennady Aygi, New Directions Press, Russian poetry, Time of Gratitude, translation

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