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Film Feature: Report from the 2017 Provincetown Film Festival

June 22, 2017
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One of the Provincetown Film Festival’s highlights: a documentary on the life of best-selling author Armistead Maupin.

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Theater Review: An Enigmatic “Abyss” — A Crime Drama About Serbs in Germany

May 26, 2014
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Does the distrust of (even a little) narrative ambiguity by North American dramaturgs and audiences mean that international plays must be made more ‘cinematic’ when they are produced here?

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Stage Interview: Antonio Ocampo-Guzman on Directing a Tragicomic “Art”

January 23, 2012
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In “Art,” playwright Yasmina Reza uses theater to explore how powerfully we defend our fears and rationalizations.

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Book Review: “The Prison Industry” — Proving That a Humane Prison Is a Perverse Fallacy

April 8, 2025
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Some of “The Prison Industry”‘s most devastating material appears in the section of the book exposing the lack of acceptable health care in jails and prisons.

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Theater Review: “Burgerz” — Food Court

April 20, 2022
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Non-binary people have plenty to be angry about these days, but Burgerz is not an attempt to shock or strike back in anger.

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Fuse News: Two Milestones – Shakespeare’s 450th and Anthony Burgess’ 50th

April 25, 2014
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“Nothing Like the Sun” remains, for my money, among the best works of fiction inspired by Shakespeare’s life.

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Film Review: “Shayda” — Memories of a Courageous Mother

March 13, 2024
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Noora Niasari’s personal involvement elevates “Shayda” above melodramatic Lifetime fare: this is a compellingly warm tribute to the Iranian director’s mother.

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Television Review: “An American Pickle” — Sour to a Fault

August 13, 2020
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Seth Rogen puts in double duty as an early 20th century Jewish immigrant and his modern great grandson in a comedy that starts off sweet but leaves a bitter aftertaste.

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Theater Review: Not So “ExtraOrdinary”

November 19, 2018
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This musical hodgepodge at the American Repertory Theater could be called ‘Let’s Sing About Me (and Me, and Then More About Me).’

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Music Feature: The New Funk of Ripe — Making Happiness a “Heavy Emotion”

February 20, 2018
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Here we are more than a year into the tumultuous Trump era, and we have not seen a revival of angry punk or righteous folk.

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