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Arts Commentary: Essential Inquiries — “40 Questions About a Political Play”

July 1, 2025
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“A play is political if its subject is taboo and its story mirrors, exposes, and critiques the suppression and repression that interferes with the treatment of a cultural disease. A political play is a problem that is ignored, denied, maligned. A political play is, by definition, unpopular.”

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Theater Review: “Brilliant Adventures” — Realism Goes Time-Tripping

January 5, 2017
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Brilliant Adventures is an intriguing combo of realism and fantasy by an obviously talented dramatist.

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Theater Review: “Ten Blocks on the Camino Real” — A Tennessee Williams Dreamscape

May 18, 2012
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Beau Jest Moving Theatre has returned to the early, one-act version of Williams’ script, and created a sometimes pleasant, sometimes nightmarish dreamscape.

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Arts Commentary: It’s Not Funny — “Saturday Night Live” and the Mark Twain Prize

December 16, 2022
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Adam Sandler receiving a Mark Twain Prize is one more SNL achievement that defies understanding.

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Film Review: “Challengers” — Match Point

May 4, 2024
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“Challengers” is an exploration of eroticism in the broadest sense: the eroticism of competition, the sensuality of sport, and the messiness of human relationships.

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Doc Talk: Racism and the Race to the White House

January 24, 2024
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Two PBS documentaries paint a grim picture of the American soul.

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Pop Album Review: Hayley Williams’s “Petals for Armour” — A Compelling Solo Adventure

May 21, 2020
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On her solo debut, the former Paramore lead singer undergoes a startling transformation.

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Music Review: New Releases of November 2019

December 23, 2019
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Five tunes that will make it impossible to have a Blue Christmas.

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Theater Review: “Vicuña” — Into the Belly of the Beast

September 27, 2018
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We need a satire that takes Trump’s radical threat more seriously than Vicuña.

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Blues CD Review: Ryan Lee Crosby’s “River Music” — A Potent Musical Stew

January 6, 2019
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River Music will satisfy the slightly adventurous listener as few other records I heard last year.

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