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Theater Review: Regicide in the Chapel — Actors’ Shakespeare Project’s “Richard III”

February 23, 2018
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Steven Barkhimer’s mastery of the role’s physicality is the key to his expression of its villainy.

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Arts Remembrance: Pianist-Composer Frederic Rzewski

July 5, 2021
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I consider composer Frederick Rzewski the most profound and persistent explorer of how to address injustice through the use of sophisticated compositional tools.

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Theater Review: “We The People,” “The Member of the Wedding,” and “Creditors”

August 16, 2018
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Three theaters in the Berkshires offer differing views of the past.

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Film Review: Acknowledging Jean Epstein — Brilliant Maverick Filmmaker and Critic

January 29, 2016
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Jean Epstein’s body of work is full of pleasures and surprises: this vigorous director broke ground for filmmakers and cinematic movements to come.

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Book Review: “How to Be an Antiracist” — A Helpful Step in Overcoming America’s Racial Divide

July 7, 2020
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A more accurate title for Ibram X Kendi’s engaging and compelling book might be:” How I learned to think like an antiracist and how you can too.

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Book Review: “Harvard Square: A Love Story” — Passion Collides with the Logic of the Market

April 11, 2023
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We are understandably upset when market forces threaten the things we consider to be sacred.

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Film Review: More Than Oral Fixation — Director Lucile Hadžihalilovićs Icily Fetishistic “Earwig”

July 29, 2022
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Earwig taps into a diabolical Freudian cabinet of uncanny curiosities and symbols.

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Book Review: “Caught” — Running Drugs, Harum-Scarum Style

March 12, 2014
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Given all the terror and brutality we have lived through just in the thirteen years of this new, 21st century, the story of people running drugs back in the ’70s doesn’t seem to have much urgency.

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Book Review: “Digging Up Mother” — Bizarro Family Values

June 15, 2016
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Digging Up Mother: A Love Story is Doug Stanhope’s disarmingly funny, unexpectedly sweet memoir.

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Theater Review: “Warrior Class” — Political Tragedy or Farce?

October 30, 2016
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Though Kenneth Lin wrote Warrior Class in 2012, it is easy to see its resonances with the 2016 election cycle.

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