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Film Review: “Don’t Look Up” — A Pitch-Dark Satire that Dares to be Impudently Pessimistic

January 4, 2022
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The knee-jerk, hateful reviews of Don’t Look Up possess comments so outsized, and so beside the point, that they bear a resemblance to the oblivious thinking of the movie’s anti-science ostriches.

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Arts Feature: The Best Underrated TV Shows to Keep You Sane During Lockdown #2

December 24, 2020
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The current lockdown gives me an opportunity to recognize TV shows whose brilliance has been overlooked.

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Book Review: “The Comedians” — A Compelling History of America’s Jesters

December 28, 2015
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I loved this book, and it will hold a cherished place on my comedy book-shelf.

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Rethinking the Repertoire #4: James MacMillan’s “Tryst”

October 16, 2015
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James MacMillan is one of the few contemporary composers who has embraced elements of the avant-garde and still found a wide audience.

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Book Review: “Bible Nation” — The Misleading Religion of Hobby Lobby

April 24, 2018
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This is an important and timely book, one that happens to be compulsively readable and that anyone even mildly interested in the intersection between religion and politics, faith and science, or religious commandment and secular law should read.

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Classical Album Review: Pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason’s “Summertime” — A Keeper

September 25, 2021
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A thoughtfully conceived, technically excellent, beautifully recorded, and expressively rich album that celebrates 20th-century piano music by (mostly) American composers.

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July 21, 2013

THE SHAPE OF THEATRICAL BIOGRAPHY John Lahr has done it again. While writing about one specific playwright, he has managed to capture an entire theatrical movement. Thirty-five years ago he wrote the biography of Joe Orton, an important but by no means the most feted of the ‘kitchen sink’ British writers, and in doing so…

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Album Review: “Mixing Colours” — The Brothers Eno

March 26, 2020
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Ironically, Mixing Colours is best experienced by taking in its video presentations.

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Theater Review: “Our Class” — A Powerful Visual History Lesson

June 18, 2025
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The strongest element in this Arlekin production is the indelible stage images of loss and love, death and despair, memory and resilience, dreamed up by director Igor Golyak and his talented production team.

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Film Review: “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning” — Of Clickbait and Global Armageddon

May 22, 2025
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“Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning” is an honest piece of grand entertainment, not as great as “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One,” but still pretty great.

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