Jim Kates

Poetry Review: “Outside” — Poetry and Prose of French Writer André du Bouchet.

July 5, 2020
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Take the poems slowly, enjoy the Cage-y silences, the concentrated words as they appear.

Poetry and Prose Review: Joseph Brodsky — Revisiting an Icon

June 27, 2020
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For a generation of Russians, Joseph Brodsky was the poet, almost a code-word in the discourse of the intelligentsia, like Nabokov.

Poetry Review: “The Mother House” — Poems with the Demeanor of Nuns

May 19, 2020
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In these poems, contemplation, serenity, and service are the order of the day.

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

February 9, 2020
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The overall effect is one of a genial, superficial club lecture on reading and writing poetry, punctuated by Frost’s Greatest Hits.

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

September 12, 2019
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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.

Theater Review: “A Doll’s House, Part 2” — Soulless Fan Fiction

August 29, 2019
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When you do this kind of thing it has to be done with bravura and wit — bad poets borrow, good poets steal.

Theater Review: “Dumas’ Camille ” — A Thickly Layered, But Intimate, Evening

August 15, 2019
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Dumas’ Camille is nothing if not ambitious. Such complexity is seldom found on a summer stage.

Theater Review: “She Loves Me” — Amiably Unambitious

August 1, 2019
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This review, like the opening night of She Loves Me, is dedicated to the life and work of the late producer Harold Prince.

Theater Review: “Morning’s at Seven” — Ensemble Excellence

July 18, 2019
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This production of Morning’s at Seven is a celebration of Peterborough’s theatrical family as much as it is the depiction of a fictional one.,/em>

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

July 4, 2019
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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.

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