Review
Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Lucinda Franks’s writing can be brilliant, deeply honest, and startling; other times superficial, sentimental, New Agey, or simply not credible.
On more than one occasion in The History of Rock ‘n’ Roll in Ten Songs Greil Marcus argues that the original recordings of some of his picks don’t hold a candle to their cover versions.
A charming, thoughtful one-man homage to writer Tennessee Williams and a hilarious burlesque spoof of TV’s Mad Men.
We become participants in a chapter of American art history that raises important questions about what fame means, how much a part luck plays, and how we treat our artists. .
The men are portrayed as comically irrelevant — and this is refreshing given the phallocentric alpha-male angst that has been TV fodder so often before.
Seeing Exhibition is like spying through a window on our most glamorous neighbors moving about their flat: it’s kind of kinky, kind of fun.
Because of the national tension between the Tutsis and the Hutus, and its effects on everyday routines in the school, this novel cannot long remain a bemusing tale of adolescent life.
Imagine Yourself in a Free and Natural World finds B L A C K I E reaching an ambitious artistic high, delivering potent pieces of jazzy discord that impressively conflate the barbaric and the beautiful.
Director Eric C. Engel and the Gloucester Stage Company cast gives Fences an insightful and nuanced production.
Despite a few clichéd moments, Land Ho! is the satisfying product of the natural grace that Aaron Katz and Martha Stephens have developed as filmmakers.
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