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Theater Review: A Dated “Company”

August 16, 2017
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Director Julianne Boyd is faced with a difficult challenge — dramatizing an outdated psychological travelogue.

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Book Review: “The Director” — To Collaborate or Not to Collaborate, That Is the Question

May 14, 2025
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This wake-up call — what will artists be asked to do to please the powers-that-be? — is also a good read.

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Concert Preview: The Salt Collective — A Multipronged Octet

January 12, 2024
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A single listen to The Salt Collective’s album disabused me of my initial skepticism. The recording is as enjoyable and interesting as one would hope for from an effort featuring this gang of eight.

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Film Review: “The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim” — Troll Poopies

December 12, 2024
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Ya gotta understand — corporate assholes are like Sauron’s boss, Morgoth. They are incapable of creation. They can only appropriate and warp, like how Morgoth appropriated and warped Elves to create Orcs.

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Book Review: “Witness: An Insider’s Narrative of the Carceral State” — A Voice Worth Heeding

April 17, 2024
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Lyle C. May reminds us that large numbers of men sentenced to death have been exonerated, and that at every level the apparatus of the carceral state is erratic at best and dramatically biased against minorities and the poor.

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Theater Review: “POTUS, Or Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive”

September 25, 2023
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“POTUS” supplies plenty of political amusement as it pits savvy, competent women against the blithering males running the American government.

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Dance Review: Compagnie Käfig — Virtuoso Hip-Hop Goes State of the Art

August 29, 2023
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While the experience is new and otherworldly, it was daunting to realize that it had taken over a decade for Compagnie Käfig’s exercise in cutting-edge art and technology to reach the hinterland of Jacob’s Pillow.

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Music Preview: John McLaughlin on Shakti’s 50th-Anniversary Tour

August 11, 2023
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John McLaughlin says that even if audiences haven’t heard Indian music before, they are catching on. “They feel what we feel,” he says. “We’re all walking the tightrope, and audiences follow.”

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Film Review: Burnt Offerings Accepted in Christian Petzold’s “Afire”

August 4, 2023
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Preoccupied with the little melodramas of their lives and their careers in the arts, the characters in”Afire” put off acknowledging the gathering disaster that might end up at their doorstep.

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Television Review: “Rosaline” — Burlesquing the Bard’s “Star-Cross’d Lovers”

October 19, 2022
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Every few years a smart teen rom-com comes along that deftly puts a modern, and pleasingly iconoclastic, spin on a classic piece of literature.

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