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Theater Review: “The Midvale High School Fiftieth Reunion” — Pleasant Remembrance of Things Past

June 14, 2017
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Alan Brody’s play is a pleasant valentine, and it will likely find a life in regional and community theaters.

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Film Review: “The Lighthouse” — “Nothing Good Happens When Two Men Are Left Alone in a Giant Phallus.”

October 25, 2019
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The Lighthouse generates dark humor from the madness of toxic males gone rogue — wired to dominate, even as they self-destruct.

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Film Review: “Not Fade Away” — David Chase’s Magical Misery Tour

January 10, 2013
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“The Sopranos” creator is the latest filmmaker to tackle the 1960s. He provides an antidote to the rose-tinted lenses of nostalgia, a grounded portrayal that evokes the truth of the period rather than the mythology.

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Theater Review: This “Comedy of Errors” is an Exhilarating Circus of Desperation

October 9, 2014
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The intriguing notion of a down-and-out clown troupe struggling with a classic text propels this superb production.

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Book Feature: “Buy Me, Boston” — A City of Ads

November 8, 2018
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The volume is devoted to print ads and event flyers for local eateries, concert venues, theaters, stores, and community events that were printed in the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s.

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Poetry Review: “The New Oxford Book of War Poetry” — The Duty to Run Mad

April 8, 2015
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Editor Jon Stallworthy’s preference in this superb anthology is for poems that question, or provoke questions about, war.

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Book Review: Yiddish Writer Celia Dropkin’s Rediscovered “Desires” — Yiddishe Erotics

December 4, 2024
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Yiddish writer Celia Dropkin wrote not only of romantic love – a topic deemed quite suitable to women writers – but also of lust, anger, abasement, and violence.

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Book Review: Clearing the Sill of the World — Thoughts on Ellen Wilbur’s Stories

April 15, 2025
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With visionary daring, Elllen Wilbur leads us into unexpected corners, then transcends them profoundly and beyond expectation. Such stories are more than “moral fictions.” They are soul-shakers.

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Film Review: “Fresh” – Meat Cute

March 9, 2022
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Never mind the faint of heart, Mimi Cave’s first feature isn’t for people with weak stomachs.

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Theater Review: A Moderately Powerful “Death of a Salesman” from The Lyric Stage Company

February 25, 2014
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A lack of dramatic combustion sometimes makes the Lyric Stage Company production, despite its intelligent detail, more staidly melodramatic than it should be.

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