Jim Kates
In 1853, the Czech scholar Karol Jaromír Erben published “A Bouquet of Folk Tales,” which became a source-book for artists and composers, and “one of the three foundational texts of Czech literature.”
Read MoreYvan Goll may be the great shape-shifter, the Zelig, of twentieth-century poetry.
Read More“Rounding Third” flounders most when it tries to get serious. Luckily, it doesn’t try very hard, and delivers considerable amusement.
Read MoreIf the poems in “That Said: New and Selected Poems” had been ordered differently, the volume would have made more of its virtues.
Read MoreActor Jack Koenig never flags in the Peterborough Players production of “Present Laughter,” and around him in his London studio-flat swirls a churning world of impertinent employees and past and present loves that would do Kaufman and Hart proud.
Read MorePatrick Barlow’s script and Chuck Morey’s direction of the Peterborough Players production turn “The 39 Steps” into a madcap, Marx-Brothers-style of zaniness barreling along at farce-speed until the very last moments.
Read MoreYou leave the matrimonial musical “I Do! I Do!” humming its banalities.
Read MoreAuld Lang Syne is the kind of poorly made play that withholds important and obvious elements of development in order to score artificial dramatic points late in the action.
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