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Robert Israel

Jazz Concert Review: A Third Report from the 40th Montreal Jazz Festival —  Harmony Amidst Chaos

This year’s Montreal Jazz Festival Festival would have been more successful had it not been for all the construction ripping apart the city.

By: Robert Israel Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Melissa Aldana, Monreal Jazz Festival, Robert Israel, Tord Gustavsen

Book Review: The Critic as Wildean Artist — Peter Schjeldahl’s Elements of Surprise

Peter Schjeldahl debunks (and praises) works of art, while also acknowledging the strategic importance of beauty.

By: Robert Israel Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Hot Cold Heavy Light: 100 Art Writings 1988-2018, Peter Schjeldahl, Robert Israel

Theater Review: “The Waverly Gallery” — A Powerful Look into a Descent into Dementia

A splendid production of an impressive early effort from the talented writer Kenneth Lonergan.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Kenneth Lonergan, Shakespeare & Company, The Waverly Gallery, Tina Packer

Theater Review: “The View UpStairs” — Celebrating a Milestone

As a vision of gay bonding, The View UpStairs exudes a wonderful in-your-face spirit.

By: Robert Israel Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Max Vernon, Paul Daigneualt, SpeakEasy Stage Company, The View Upstairs

Theater News: There Goes the Neighborhood — Gold Dust Orphans to Lose their Fenway Home

“I saw it coming three years ago, when there was a frenzy of development in the Fenway. Now the neighborhood looks like a corporate mall.”

By: Robert Israel Filed Under: Featured, Fuse News, Theater Tagged: Ryan Landry, Ryan Landry and the Gold Dust Orphans, The Machine

Theater Review: “Indecent” — A Dangerous World for People of Faith

Indecent is a play of contrasts: piety versus blasphemy, joy versus heartbreak.

By: Robert Israel Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Huntington-Theatre-Company, Indecent, Paula-Vogel, Rebecca Taichman

Book Review: John Hersey — Reporting Truthfully, at All Costs

John Hersey emerges in this book as a disciplined journalist who held steadfast to an admirably singular goal.

By: Robert Israel Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: John Hersey, Mr. Straight Arrow: The Career of John Hersey

Theater Interview: Playwright Paula Vogel on “Indecent” and a Love of Yiddish

“Yiddish is above all a language of yearning, a language of anxiety.”

By: Robert Israel Filed Under: Featured, Interview, Theater Tagged: Indecent, Paula-Vogel

Theater Review: “American Moor” — Lasting Impressions

American Moor sheds considerable insight into the tension between actor vs. director, into the power play between the two, and who will ultimately prevail.

By: Robert Israel Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: American Moor, Arts Emerson, Keith Hamilton Cobb

Theater News: IRNE@23 — Boisterous Irreverence

The IRNE event did what it has done for decades: cast a warm glow on a vibrant local theater scene and those who are dedicated to entertain, astonish, and inspire.

By: Robert Israel Filed Under: Featured, Fuse News, Theater Tagged: IRNE, IRNE-awards, Robert Israel

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