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Theater Review: “King Lear” — Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Monumental Achievement

October 11, 2013
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Director Bill Rauch’s concept and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival company have, in a small space, created an achievement of monumental, yet personal, proportion.

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Theater Review Diary: The Oregon Shakespeare Festival — A Worthy Theatrical Adventure

October 11, 2013
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The Oregon Shakespeare Festival is an annual theatrical adventure for many on the West coast, and should become one for the rest of the country – but make reservations early.

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Book Review: In Pitigrilli’s Intoxicating “Cocaine,” Love is the Drug

October 10, 2013
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Cocaine’s bleak and brilliant satire, lush and intoxicating prose, and sadistic playfulness remain as fresh and caustic as they were nine decades ago.

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Theater Review: “Million Dollar Quartet” — An Infectious Evening for Aging Baby Boomers

October 10, 2013
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The audience, mostly gray-haired seniors and aging baby boomers, walked out with smiles on their faces, as did I.

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Fuse Theater Review: Two New Musicals Hit Broadway — “Big Fish” and “The Bridges of Madison County”

October 8, 2013
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Other than the teams that put together Rent and Wicked, film-makers have taken ‘creative’ control, turning Broadway into the land of retreads.

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

October 8, 2013
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Tennessee Williams was a prolific writer, and each season the Festival presents an unfinished play or little known work from his vast canon.

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Film Review: “Mother of George” — Depressingly Predictable

October 7, 2013
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Mother of George has garnered a rarer-than-rare 100% Rotten Tomatoes rating from critics. Sorry to be the cynical spoiler.

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Fuse Interview: Ian Frazier on the Comic Genius of Ring Lardner

October 6, 2013
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Ring Lardner wrote the funniest stand-alone sentence using the fewest words with which that feat can be done: “‘Shut up,’ he explained.”

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Album Review: Oneohtrix Point Never’s “R Plus Seven” — Music That Draws You In

October 6, 2013
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With this LP, Daniel Lopatin has crafted an immaculate aural landscape that one can (and will want to) lose oneself in for hours.

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Book Review: “The Stray Bullet” — William S. Burroughs Discovers His Ugly Spirit in Mexico

October 4, 2013
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Between the heroin, booze, and all else that Mexico had to offer, there was little to no time for William S. Burroughs to appreciate the culture of his adopted home.

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