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Jim Kates

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

Theater Review: “The Doctor’s Dilemma” — Problem Solved

The ethical deliberations and the professional backbiting and banter of the doctors fare well in the skilled hands of the director and cast.

By: Jim Kates Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: George-Bernard-Shaw, Gus Kaikkonen, Peterborough Players, The Doctor's Dilemma

Theater Review: “Constellations” — A Drama about the Music of Time

Nick Payne’s fascinating Constellations takes the cosmic paradoxes of time head on.

By: Jim Kates Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Bridget Beirne, Constellations, Nick Payne, Peterborough Players, Sean Patrick Hopkins

Theater Review: “The Whipping Man” — A Secular Haggadah

Flawed and perhaps overwrought, The Whipping Man is worth watching because of the intensity of its individual scenes.

By: Jim Kates Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Howard Millman, Jim Kates, Peterborough Players, The Whipping Man

Theater Review: A Stylish “Steel Magnolias” at Peterborough Players

This Peterborough Players production deserves a longer run than it has in the company’s inaugural winter season.

By: Jim Kates Filed Under: Featured, Review Tagged: Brenny Rabine, Gus Kaikkonen, Katelyn Manfre, Kathy Manfre, Lisa Bostnar, Pamela White, Peterborough Players, Robert Harling, Steel Magnolias

Theater Review: “Mass Appeal” — A Compelling Drama of Ritual

Profoundly conservative and radically fresh, Mass Appeal justifies its title in the Peterborough Players fine production.

By: Jim Kates Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Adam Sowers, Bill C. Davis, Gus Kaikkonen, Mass Appeal, Peterborough Players

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