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Theater Review: “Mr Joy” — Empowerment Overload

September 28, 2015
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It is no longer enough for a playwright to go into the belly of the ‘beast’ and pray for help.

Theater Review: “appropriate” — Southern Gothic, Entertainingly Deconstructed

September 19, 2015
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In appropriate, a talented young playwright turns mischievous literary homage into a work of exhilarating entertainment.

Book Review: “Half an Inch of Water” — Nine Stories that Peer Memorably into Eternity

September 14, 2015
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One of the hardest things to do as a writer of contemporary fiction is to create characters who are good.

Movie Review: “Dope” — A Liberating Coming-of-Age Film

June 19, 2015
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The impish comedy and refreshingly realistic perspective of Dope questions easy answers to pressing racial problems.

Fuse Theater Review: “Intimate Apparel” — An Affecting Vision of Constriction

March 2, 2015
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The Lyric Stage is presenting a moving production of Lynn Nottage’s cautionary tale about strength of character tragically misdirected.

Film Review: “No No: A Dockumentary” — Could Use a Touch of Madness

September 6, 2014
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No No: A Dockumentary presents a textured portrait, on and off the field, of ’70s pitching phenomenon Dock Ellis.

Book Review: “The Good Lord Bird” — History As a Morality Tale, With Wings

February 5, 2014
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There is more than one way to tell the truth, “The Good Lord Bird” reminds us again and again, and many reasons to cloak it in humor.

Visual Arts Review: At the MFA — Bruce Davidson’s Dramatic Vision of ’60s Harlem

May 20, 2013
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Despite the show’s darkness, “East 100th Street”‘s exploration of Harlem in the ’60s is in many ways a testament to the endurance of love.

Theater Review: Freedom for “The Whipping Man”

March 11, 2012
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An unusual and powerful historical drama that looks at the troubled relationship between Jews and freed slaves at the end of The Civil War.

Fuse Theater Review: Death Be Not Sappy

April 10, 2011
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William King is a loving, self-sacrificing, salt-of-the-earth character mooning over the vanished past; Sonia is a saintly wife yearning for hubby to join her in Heaven; the sons care for each other and for their father—time to pull out your hankies. Broke-ology by Nathan Louis Jackson. Directed by Benny Sato Ambush. Staged by the Lyric…

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