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Theater Review: Bread & Puppet Theater’s “Shatterer of Worlds” — Apocalyptic Art

January 26, 2014
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Those willing to accept that powerful political theater can be as much about depicting pain as providing hope will find much to admire in this visually striking, dramatically compelling piece.

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Arts Interview: Talking With David Milch

June 6, 2019
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“I’ve been beaten. I know what that’s like. They say, who has been a nail, can learn to be a hammer.”

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Film Review: “Her Smell” — Fiddling with Our Viscera

April 26, 2019
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Her Smell is funny-terrifying, alluring-repulsive, moving-disturbing, era-capturing and timeless.

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Book Review: “The Farm” — Obsessed With The Land

October 4, 2018
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There can be no future, Héctor Abad seems to be arguing, when everything you are is hidden away in a time you can never fully know.

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Dance Review: Dystopian Dancing — Pina, a 3-D documentary

December 26, 2011
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As a dancer, Pina Bausch was the presiding spirit of speechlessness. She had the macabre body of an anorexic, but her matchstick arms communicated entire inner worlds.

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Poetry Reviews: Paul Muldoon and Others

November 27, 2021
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Paul Muldoon is anxious to file dispatches from the front lines of Our Lives Now. That is one of the characteristics that separates him from most other poets writing today.

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Author Interview: Welcome to the “Mad World” of New Wave Music of the 1980s

June 22, 2014
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“It was an unusual time in music when the-powers-that-be were very hands-off. They left the art to the artists.”

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Jazz Commemoration and Comment: Horace Silver, 1928 – 2014

June 19, 2014
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He knew what he wanted to do, he did it, and he took millions along for the ride.

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Jazz CD Review: Cécile McLorin Salvant’s “The Window” — A Very Beautiful View

September 21, 2018
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The Window contains an inspired pairing — between singer Cécile McLorin Salvant and pianist-organist Sullivan Fortner.

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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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