Review

Theater Review: “Ada/Ava” — Puppetry Meets Technology

January 12, 2018
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Ada/Ava is an impressive theatrical feat that finds a new, and invigorating, way of telling a story on stage.

Film Review: “Blame” — A Crucible of Teen Drama

January 8, 2018
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I love the way Blame captures the kaleidoscopic emotional experience of being a teenage girl.

Jazz CD Review: Three Paths for Futurism

January 7, 2018
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Three incisive visions of what’s to come from largish groups of committed musicians.

Film Review: “The Post” — The Newspaper Business is Not Glamorous, But Movies Are

January 5, 2018
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Steven Spielberg’s political timing is nearly perfect, and so is his film.

WATCH CLOSELY: “Black Mirror” — Reflecting Our Dark Days

January 4, 2018
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What has Black Mirror been good for, beyond entertainment, if not drawing our attention to escalating social and technological perils?

Jazz CD Reviews: “Body and Shadow” and “I Am A Man”

January 4, 2018
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Brian Blade is not only a skillfully discreet: he can be as powerful as any drummer since Elvin Jones.

Theater Review: “The Wolves” — Theater of the Prosaic

January 3, 2018
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Perhaps the theatre of millennials will resemble Reality TV, resistant to suggestive metaphor and the rewards of complex narration.

Film Commentary: Gary Oldman — The Spiritual Death of the Last “Angry Young Man”?

January 1, 2018
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I miss the precocious, mischievous, darkly cunning, and troubled characters Gary Oldman once portrayed so beautifully.

Book Review: Nikki Giovanni — Still Feisty After All These Years

December 31, 2017
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Reading Nikki Giovanni, one is inspired to never cower, to never beg, to never surrender.

Film Review: “Call Me By Your Name” — Desire Under the Apricot Trees

December 27, 2017
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I can unequivocally say this is the most masterful and beautiful film of the year.

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