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In all of his books, John Julius Norwich remembered that history is a story.
One of the fears of poets and, I imagine, all writers, is that you’ll reach a certain age and you’ll run out of gas.
Time For Romance: But Beautiful may qualify — if I can even use the term now — as seduction music.
This is an opportunity to take in the early stirrings of Tennessee Williams’ talent as a playwright.
For most of its history, jazz has been a macho culture. Sexual ambiguity or gay-ness were subjects of derision.
Ethan Hawke’s goal as an artist is to connect meaningfully with the world — avoiding artifice is essential in terms of his acting, directing, and writing.
His beautiful sound is undimmed by time, his sensitivity to nuance is intact, and his choice of virtuoso partners was a delight.
Not all of the production’s choices pay off, but Hamnet is a fascinating, one-of-a-kind play that strikes at a universal sense of longing.
If Charlie Harmon’s story jumps around a bit and reads rather like a series of diary entries, it’s at the very least engaging and, for the most part, entertaining.
Arts Commentary: Another View of “The Niceties”
To an extent, The Niceties does probe a fault line between the Democratic Party and the left: a boundary that will rupture sooner rather than later.
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