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Theater Review: “The Gift Horse” — A Dramatic Contender

May 4, 2017
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Lydia R. Diamond’s dialogue is funny and cutting; when it needs to it digs deep, mining gems of psychological insight.

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The Arts on the Stamps of the World — April 18

April 18, 2017
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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

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Jazz CD Review: “MONKestra, Volume Two” — Reinventing Monk

August 15, 2017
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John Beasley and his big band doesn’t tame Monk or make him uncharacteristically pretty.

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Theater Interview: John Bell on Bread and Puppet’s Staging of Aeschylus’s “The Persians”

April 19, 2022
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“The play challenges us to think about those we consider our enemies, and to think of them with compassion and understanding.”

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Jazz Preview / Commentary: Jason Moran’s Monk Project

January 19, 2012
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So Jason Moran has decided to re-create something that is already a pinnacle of a master’s work –- something that could hardly be improved on. You could be expected to ask Why? and How?

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Book Review: “Hard to Watch” — How to Love Demanding Films

October 15, 2024
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“Hard to Watch” lays out a pragmatic path — directions for how to preserve your time and attention —  that will help just about anybody engage with any kind of art thoughtfully and purposefully.

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Classical Album Review: Handel’s Oratorio “Jephtha,” in All its Highly Dramatic Glory

March 8, 2025
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Conductor Jane Glover, marvelous soloists — including superstar countertenor Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen — and a superb chorus and orchestra invigorate one of Handel’s last and greatest works.

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Author Interview: Richard L. Hasen on “The Real Right to Vote”

April 10, 2024
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“We have much less protection over our right to vote than most people think.”

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Theater Review: At This “Prom” — Acceptance, Love, and Laughter

May 22, 2023
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The Prom’s greatest strength is how the musical can be, almost simultaneously, satirical, hilarious, and nuanced.

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Film Review: “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” — Payback’s a Bitch

April 29, 2023
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Armed with a quarter of a billion dollars from the people who chucked him to the MAGA wolves, director James Gunn has created one of the most mean-spirited and nasty movies to have come down the pike since Straw Dogs.

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