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Robert Israel

Poetry Review: “Field Music” — Lyrical Visions of Hardscrabble Vermont

The voice in Field Music is disciplined, its cagey earthiness unfailingly engaging our attention.

By: Robert Israel Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, Uncategorized Tagged: Alexandria Hall, Field Music, Poetry, Vermont

Television/Theater Review: “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” — Listening to the Lessons of the Blues

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom is a stellar artistic accomplishment, a blazingly powerful dramatic experience.

By: Robert Israel Filed Under: Featured, Review, Television, Theater Tagged: August-Wilson, Chadwick Boseman, Denzel Washington, George C. Wolfe, Ma-Raineys-Black-Bottom, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Viola Davis

Book Review: “Before the Coffee Gets Cold” — Would You Like Time Travel with That Latte?

To his credit, Kawaguchi is a canny enough craftsman to give the time tripping cliché a healthy spin.

By: Robert Israel Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Before the Coffee Gets Cold, Hanover Square Press, Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Book Review: Black Food Matters — “The Rise: Black Cooks and the Soul of American Food”

The Rise is the rare cookbook that does more than offer a culinary and educational journey. It inspires.

By: Robert Israel Filed Under: Books, Featured, Food, Review Tagged: Marcus Samuelsson, The Rise: Black Cooks and the Soul of American Food

Poetry Feature: Louise Glück Wins Nobel Prize in Literature

Louise Glück crafts her poems with an insinuatingly thorny power that demands the reader pay close attention.

By: Robert Israel Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: Louise Glück, Nobel Prize in Literature

Theater Review: Penny Arcade — Provincetown, Puritans, and the Pandemic

I’ve hated enough people,” Penny Arcade confessed, “I can’t hate anyone new until 2022.”

By: Robert Israel Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: David Kaplan, Longing Lasts Longer, Penny Arcade, Tennessee William Theater Festival

Book Review: “The Atomic Bomb on My Back” — Witness to Apocalypse

Reading Sumiteru Taniguchi’s book brought back my memories of meeting a man who had witnessed the unimaginable.

By: Robert Israel Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Nagasaki Day, Rootstock Publishing, Sumiteru Taniguchi, The Atomic Bomb on My Back

Arts Remembrance: Terrence McNally — Dramatist and Father of the Serious Contemporary Musical 

The late Terrence McNally was more than just a masterful playwright. He also forged new roads in musical theater.

By: Christopher Caggiano Filed Under: Featured, Theater Tagged: Christopher Caggiano, Robert Israel, Terrence McNally

Arts Remembrance: Flutist Doriot Anthony Dwyer

Doriot Anthony Dwyer was a virtuoso flutist, one who could coax brightly burnished tones out of the instrument.

By: Robert Israel Filed Under: Classical Music, Commentary, Featured Tagged: Doriot Anthony Dwyer

Theater Review: “The Children” — After the Damage Has Been Done

An apocalyptic backdrop gives the play urgency, especially given the current worldwide struggle to contain the Corvid-19 virus, which has already claimed thousands of lives.

By: Robert Israel Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Karen MacDonald, Paula Plum, Robert Israel, SpeakEasy Stage Company, The Children

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