Robert Israel

Theater Review: “Men on Boats” — A Trip with its Ups and Downs

September 16, 2017
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Men on Boats is a sometimes rollicking, at other times tedious, one-act play.

Theater Review: “Out of the Mouths of Babes” — Memories of a Cad

August 19, 2017
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Israel Horovitz’s latest play delivers some fine moments of comedy as well as some dark revelations about female neediness.

Theater Remembrance: Sam Shepard — An Appreciation

August 1, 2017
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Throughout Sam Shepard’s oeuvre one can find ample evidence of his struggles with demons, some of them distinctively American.

Theater Review: “Mad Dash” — Fresh Ink Theatre Beats the Clock

July 10, 2017
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Fresh Ink Theatre is to be applauded for taking risks, for daring to mix it all up, for giving audiences a taste of what theater, shelter-skelter version, can be.

Theater Review: “Ripcord” — Bittersweet Geriatrics

June 1, 2017
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Yes, Ripcord is candied, but there’s just enough astringency blended in to make the sugar sufficiently tangy.

Theater Review: “The Bridges of Madison County” — Waterlogged

May 9, 2017
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The talented SpeakEasy Stage ensemble offers enough harmonious pizazz to make up for the musical ‘s erotic fizzle.

Visual Arts Feature: The Photographs of Henryk Ross — An Eye on the Banality of Evil

March 17, 2017
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In the remarkable images of Henryk Ross, Nazi evil is exposed through a kind of heroic voyeurism.

Theater Review: “Grand Concourse” — You Gotta Have Faith

March 8, 2017
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Grand Concourse does wondrous things: it encourages us ponder our own growth toward faith while emphasizing with the struggles of others.

Film Review: “Fences” — The Tragedy of Walls

December 27, 2016
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This excellent film version of the play Fences meets (even exceeds) the considerable demands of August Wilson’s script.

Book Review: Poet Philip Levine — The Kernel of Life

December 9, 2016
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These posthumous volumes provide ample proof that poet Philip Levine was far more than a proletariat troubadour.

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