Month: September 2020
He may be extreme as a polemicist, but Ricky Riccardi shines when he sticks to jazz’s history.
Read MoreFor fans of novellas, Filthy Rich will be a trashy guilty pleasure.
Read MoreCharles Lloyd and Julian Lage and Zakir Hussain served a loose, flowing 65-minute set with complementary facility that belied the novel circumstances.
Read MoreNo matter where our lives were at just nine months ago, most of us are now longing for those pre-pandemic days. Jump into this week’s jukebox of an episode for a trip back in time.
Read MoreKeats is comfortable in that ambiguous space between reality and the imagination, and you will find no finer example of Romantic poetry when he fuses them in the language of an erotic dream.
Read MoreWhen Willie dove into “On the Road Again” to close the set, singing of “making music with my friends,” one could envision the same hopes for Farm Aid to resume its annual trek to an amphitheater somewhere in America and stoke the communal cause.
Read MoreAgrippina (1709), an enormous hit at the Met this past season, proves, by turns, gripping, sardonic, and exquisite.
Read MoreThe real problem is the obsessive engagement with social media platforms that encourages attention-seeking behavior, and rewards it.
Read MoreIn no way was the recognition that Ira Sullivan received commensurate with his skill.
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Theater Review: Penny Arcade — Provincetown, Puritans, and the Pandemic
I’ve hated enough people,” Penny Arcade confessed, “I can’t hate anyone new until 2022.”
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