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Robert Israel

Book Review: Hail to The Kid — Ted Williams

Book Review: Hail to The Kid — Ted Williams

This expansive biography of Ted Williams is not awash in sentimentally, thanks to Ben Bradlee’s praiseworthy search for the facts, no matter where they lead, and his command of language, honed during his 25-year career as a reporter and editor at “The Boston Globe.”

By: Robert Israel Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Ben Bradlee, Boston Red Sox, Jr, Ted Williams, The Kid: The Immortal Life of Ted Williams

Fuse Music Review: Boston Pops Orchestra and the Holiday Pops — Some Makeover Ideas

Fuse Music Review: Boston Pops Orchestra and the Holiday Pops — Some Makeover Ideas

Would it be all that nervy to ask if, in the coming years, there might be more, not less, musical experimentation? Couldn’t the Boston Pops commission a new seasonal work and showcase it?

By: Robert Israel Filed Under: Fuse News Tagged: Boston Pops, Holiday Pops, Keith Lockhart

Fuse Theater Review: “Becky’s New Car” — A Song of the Open Road

Fuse Theater Review: “Becky’s New Car” — A Song of the Open Road

“Becky’s New Car” turns out to be a ride worth taking, especially if we suspend our disbelief long enough to embrace the notion that malice is not necessarily aforethought even though our actions might be construed to suggest otherwise.

By: Robert Israel Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Becky's New Car, Larry Coen, Lyric stage company of boston, Steven Dietz

Theater Review: “Waiting for Godot” — Dramatizing the Residue of Resilience

Theater Review: “Waiting for Godot” — Dramatizing the Residue of Resilience

This remains a vision of a dystopian universe, but in the hands of these performers “Waiting for Godot”‘s angst exudes as much antic warmth as it does cold angst.

By: Robert Israel Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Arts Emerson, Gare St Lazare Irelan, samuel-beckett, Waiting for Godot

Theater Feature: Tennessee Williams Theater Festival 2013 — An Exemplary Year

Theater Feature: Tennessee Williams Theater Festival 2013 — An Exemplary Year

Tennessee Williams was a prolific writer, and each season the Festival presents an unfinished play or little known work from his vast canon.

By: Robert Israel Filed Under: Featured, Theater Tagged: Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival, tennessee-Williams

Theater Review: Women Rule at Canada’s Stratford Festival

Theater Review: Women Rule at Canada’s Stratford Festival

While luminary thespians and film stars such as Brian Dennehy and Christopher Plummer have trod the Stratford Festival boards, let me sing the praises of two actresses: Martha Henry and Michelle Giroux.

By: Robert Israel Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Blithe Spirit, Canada, Martha Henry, Michelle Giroux, Stratford Festival, Taking Shakespeare

Concert Reviews: Joan Baez, Sting — Nostalgia Served Without Sentiment

Concert Reviews: Joan Baez, Sting — Nostalgia Served Without Sentiment

Part of the nostalgia of seeing Joan Baez and Sting was the opportunity to relive the experiences of attending their concerts at a more youthful time in our lives.

By: Robert Israel Filed Under: Folk, Fuse News, Music, Popular Music, Rock Tagged: Bank of America Pavilion, Joan Baez, Sting, Tanglewood

Fuse Stage Commentary: The Need for a Theater of Transformation

Fuse Stage Commentary: The Need for a Theater of Transformation

Theater taught me how to draw parallels, to condense, to delete triviality and to recognize significance.

By: Robert Israel Filed Under: Featured, Theater Tagged: 9 Circles, Bill Cain, Martha Boseing, Robert Lepage, The Andersen Project, theater of transformation

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