Robert Israel
“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.”
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Indecent is a play of contrasts: piety versus blasphemy, joy versus heartbreak.
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John Hersey emerges in this book as a disciplined journalist who held steadfast to an admirably singular goal.
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“Yiddish is above all a language of yearning, a language of anxiety.”
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American Moor sheds considerable insight into the tension between actor vs. director, into the power play between the two, and who will ultimately prevail.
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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.
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W.S. Merwin remained politically as well as artistically motivated all his life, often proclaiming the vital importance of activism.
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J. B. Priestly’s shallow characterizations keep his vision of moneyed skullduggery mundane rather than monstrous.
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The Lyric Stage Company’s The Little Foxes is taut, tense, and eerily reflective of our own uneasy, pernicious times.
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In Garciela Iturbide’s photographs, the living and the dying are often joined at the (exposed) skeletal hip.
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Jazz Perspective: Zev Feldman – A Sherlock of a Producer with an Impressive Portfolio