Review
In this excellent biography, Robert Crawford succeeds admirably in detailing T.S. Eliot’s early intellectual development.
This troupe from North Carolina has managed to hit all the right prog-rock targets with music that has sweep, depth, and texture while avoiding pretension.
The protagonist’s version of barroom existentialism works as an unofficial précis for the struggle to make it through another day of being human.
William Inge’s Off the Main Road is both contemporary and politically incorrect in the best ways.
Out of Sterno punches the same punchline far too often.
This was probably the loudest, rockingest Brian Wilson show I’ve ever seen.
In many ways, Alan Ayckbourn in Intimate Exchanges has concocted the perfect recipe for a company like the Peterborough Players.
“Ballet is only good when it is great,” the legendarily unblinking dance critic Arlene Croce once wrote; whenever I bring that judgement to mind it makes me both swallow hard and sigh softly.
The writing in this novel depends on winks and nods. You’re invited to be in on a big joke, assuming it is one.
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