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Vivian Gornick is an elegist of the transformative experience of reading and writing, what she calls “the companionateness” of books.
For all the teen-pop trappings, however, there is an old-fashioned sensibility to Rex Orange County’s music.
The main problem with Gloria is its expository storytelling. Events are mostly announced and described rather than recreated.
Underground Railway Theater has a runaway hit. You’ll never see a show quite like it. It’s bold, ridiculous, and very risky.
Praxis Stage picked the right time to stage a Shakespeare play about a head of state who doesn’t have anything on his mind but corruption.
Arnold Rosner’s writing in each act is strongly contrapuntal, metrically unpredictable, and idiomatically scored. The music is marked by constantly shifting colors, a strong sense of rhythm, and a healthy dose of lyricism.
The New Rep production of Hair is acceptable: if the intent was to look back at a now-dated musical that once caused a stir.
Among this group of strong animated shorts I found the French selection, Mémorable, to be the most powerful and artful.
“The idea that slavery was not economically important to New England as a whole is just emphatically not true.”
YouTube Commentary: “李子柒 Liziqi” — Nature and Internet Celebrity in the Time of the Coronavirus
Not only do Lǐ Zǐqī’s videos offer us the satisfaction of seeing material labor, but they also suggest the impossibility — in the modern world — of genuinely recreating the work of the past.
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