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Theater Review: A “Mikado” That’s a Joy to Hear and Behold

September 13, 2012
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The well sung, classically staged Lyric Stage production of “The Mikado” supplies plenty of trip down memory lane satisfactions.

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Book Review: “The Greatcoat” – A Great Ghost Story?

September 12, 2012
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I can say, without equivocation, that Helen Dunmore’s novel “The Greatcoat” is no “The Turn of the Screw.”

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Theater Review: “Marie Antoinette” — Let Them Eat Images

September 12, 2012
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In its program, the A.R.T. links today’s 1% with the French aristocracy, a stab at relevance that does both the snobby thugs of the French Revolution and the super well-off of today a disservice. Say what you will about the 1%, but they aren’t stupid.

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Classical Music Commentary: The Perilous Life of the Handel & Haydn Society?

September 11, 2012
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The greatest obstacle H&H faces in building new audiences, though, is far more insidious than too many period ensembles in town: it has to do with time.

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Short Fuse Commentary: Art and 9/11

September 11, 2012
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What percentage art? What percentage terrorist attack?

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Book Commentary/Review: Imagine There Are No Negative Reviews — It’s Not So Easy If You Try

September 10, 2012
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Who has taken criticism out of the hands of the “true critics”? Is someone making me read rancid Amazon reader reviews? Where do we look for the “true critics”?

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Stage Interview: Cracking Eggs to Make An Omelet —Talking to Israeli novelist and playwright A.B. Yehoshua

September 8, 2012
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The latest play by the celebrated Israeli writer A.B. Yehoshua is a historical drama that revolves around an imaginary conversation between two major political rivals about Zionism and the founding of Israel. Israeli Stage is presenting the American premiere of a staged reading of the script.

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Fuse Book Review: “The Woman Reader” — The Sounds of Silence

September 8, 2012
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In the encyclopedic, fascinating, and intermittently infuriating “The Woman Reader,” author Belinda Jack argues that we should not fear the battle between paper vs. pixels, but value reading and the ways it nourishes a woman’s inner life.

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Book Interview: Literary Crusaders of The Gilded Age —Tackling the Great American Railroad

September 6, 2012
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“The Great American Railroad War” reminds us of an inspired journalistic reaction to the crimes of an earlier age of robber baron.

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Stage Interview: Eclectic Storyteller Cyndi Freeman Comes Home in “And I Am Not Lying Live”

September 4, 2012
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“Why has it taken so long for me to come back home? I don’t know. I have been thinking about it for years and it just never quite seemed like the right time until now.”

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