Review
The music was loud, the dancers laughing and sweating and clearly happy to be liberated from their cabin-fever inducing confines to let loose and have some fun.
John Tiffany’s Tony-winning direction of “Once,” restaged for the current tour, is a miracle of judicious rhythmic choices and deft transitions.
Using her family’s history as a springboard, Julia Franck has created exemplary figures forced to navigate the treacherous shoals of her country’s history.
“Venus in Fur” could be best described as cheeky rather than kinky, more of a talky intellectual exercise than a zesty exploration of the allure of sexual domination and submission.
Nic Pizzolatto’s scripts for “True Detective” have their moments but, self-consciously literary, they also are painfully overwritten.
The greatest album of the year isn’t even an album per se. There is a lot of hoopla surrounding the leak of what might be the debut album of elusive British lo-fi R&B artist Jai Paul.
The challenges of this musical are to keep things buoyant yet insightful (and with some backbone) about a subject many of us dread, namely work and its drudgery.
If “Henry VIII” is dramatically lacking when compared to Shakespeare’s other histories, what makes this production worthwhile is the care Actors’ Shakespeare Project has brought to staging it.
Amongst the acoustic live sessions, listeners should be delighted with the Chick Corea-Herbie Hancock duets.
“Before I Burn” gives the reader the awesome sense of a fully perceived life—the hallmark of great art.
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