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Theater Review: “Tea at Five” Doesn’t Deserve Faye Dunaway

July 2, 2019
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Faye Dunaway has chosen Tea at Five as the vehicle to bring her back to Broadway after a 37-year absence. Would that she had waited a bit longer for a vehicle more worthy of her considerable talents.

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Book Review: Supreme Democracy? How Supreme Court Justices are Chosen

June 29, 2017
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The history and process of judicial selection — dispassionately detailed.

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Concert Review: Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall

November 18, 2014
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Under Michael Tilson Thomas’s leadership, the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra’s sound has been refined and tightened; its repertoire has grown to embrace American music of all stripes.

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Concert Review: Wayne Shorter’s 80th Birthday Celebration — A Memorable Bash

November 26, 2013
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One doesn’t come away from a Wayne Shorter Quartet performance merely raving about individual accomplishments: the set on Sunday night never felt like just a compelling sequence of solos.

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Concert Review: Chanticleer Serves up Plenty of Charm in Rockport

July 15, 2014
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Chanticleer has armies of longtime fans; I am now unquestionably going to join the club.

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Rock Album Review: Alternative Music Round-Up

November 5, 2013
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A pithy critical consideration of new releases from Flaming Lips, The Frights, Mind Spiders, Radioactivity, Ólöf Arnalds, Lee Bannon, Armand Hammer, and Haunted Horses.

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Theater Review: “Laughing Stock” Redux

August 8, 2013
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The current revival of Laughing Stock, directed again by the playwright, has softer edges than I remember in the earlier one, played with fluidity rather than crackle.

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Book Review: “Deliver Us” — A Memoir of a Boy’s Life in a Small Italian Town

August 9, 2011
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Originally published in 1963, and today considered by some critics a landmark in twentieth century Italian literature, in English Luigi Meneghello’s memoir feels more like a duty than a delight to read.

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Fuse Concert Review: Jordi Savall — Taking World Music for a Whirl

July 13, 2016
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Rockport’s intimate Shalin Liu Concert Hall overlooks the ocean, but seemed to be transformed into a flamenco parlor in Seville.

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Theater Feature: Bridget Kathleen O’Leary Talks about GSC’s “The Flick”

August 27, 2015
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“An Annie Baker pause is about the people themselves, beating themselves up, figuring out what to say next.”

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