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Letters from Gettysburg is an extraordinarily haunting five-movement work that elevates the experience of one man into a memorial to all victims of war.
What happens when a dubious scientific experiment yields unexpected results?
Joanna Hogg refuses by aesthetic principle to put a lot of inflection into her scenes, steering them away from melodrama and even heated drama. As a result, some episodes are half-baked, sketchy, and flat.
This marvelous production pulls off a tricky balance — vibrant bursts of creative energy are put at the service of illuminating the thorny nature of memory and guilt.
“I’ve been beaten. I know what that’s like. They say, who has been a nail, can learn to be a hammer.”
In this piece, Peter DiMuro asks a vital question: how has history informed the ways we look at queerness today?
Jean-Philppe Blondel’s books are especially praised by critics for their charm and smoothly-shaped prose.
As a capella singers, they have taken their musical ministry — and its repertoire of 500 songs — to streets, subway stations, picnics, community clean-ups, and anywhere else they might find an audience who appreciated a musical message.
A splendid production of an impressive early effort from the talented writer Kenneth Lonergan.
Theater Commentary: An Open Letter — to the “Open Letter”
The media big boys should be part of the discussion, if only because they have the resources to change the situation for the better.
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