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Book Review: “The Man Between” — Homage to a Translator Extraordinaire

January 21, 2015
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The Man Between offers a fascinating glimpse of the late master translator Michael Henry Heim, its reportedly modest and reticent protagonist.

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Theater Review: Bedlam’s “Saint Joan” — Ferociously Relevant

January 20, 2015
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The virtuoso approach of Bedlam’s Saint Joan, its unpretentious immediacy, makes this production an exuberant Shavian history lesson that should not to be missed.

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Concert Review: The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain — Delightfully Daffy

January 19, 2015
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The fooling around was far more compelling than I could have imagined: the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain know how to throw a fun, funny, family-friendly show.

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Dance Preview: Radio Dancing — A Conversation with Monica Bill Barnes

January 17, 2015
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Monica Bill Barnes’s choreographic method can be characterized as make ’em laugh, then make ’em think.

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Rock Concert Review: Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven — For the Professorial Class

January 17, 2015
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This was the sixth consecutive year the double bill of Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven hit the Middle East on MLK weekend; it was sold-out as usual.

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Theater Review: New Rep’s “Muckrakers” — Not Messy Enough

January 17, 2015
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Zayd Dohrn’s slightly predictable Muckrakers offers some satisfying twists and turns as it moves toward the inevitable.

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Theater Review: “Measure for Measure” – A Problem Play for Shakespeare’s Time — and Ours

January 16, 2015
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Shakespeare may have written Measure for Measure as a dystopian satire of what it would be like if the Puritans were ever to take over England.

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Roots and World Music Review: Favorite and Least Favorite Shows of 2014

January 16, 2015
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Better Late Than Never: Fuse Music Critic Noah Schaffer’s favorite live music moments from the past year.

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Film Review: “Foxcatcher” — Sports and the Pathology of the 1%

January 15, 2015
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Of all the cinematic indictments of the 1% that have flooded the multiplex in the wake of the financial crisis, Bennett Miller’s Foxcatcher stands as one of the most understated.

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Stage Review: A Not-So-Perfect “Future Perfect” at SpeakEasy Stage

January 15, 2015
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Playwright Ken Urban doesn’t seem to have a strong point of view about his thirtysomethings-in-a-muddle; neither does he allow them to change or grow.

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