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Theater Review: Rock Critic Lester Bangs — A Welcome Rebel Yell

May 15, 2017
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Lester Bangs insisted that, at its best, rock was an act of pure rebellion, a liberation from the prison of respectability.

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Theater Review: A Very Winning “Beauty Queen of Leenane”

February 15, 2017
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The Druid Theatre Company staging shows what amazing things happens when a group of artists work together fully and completely .

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Theater Preview: Conor Lovett on Music and Samuel Beckett in “Here All Night”

September 29, 2016
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“If you’ll excuse me for being cheeky, it’s a collaboration between the players on stage and Beckett’s works.”

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Theater Review: “Cuisine & Confessions” — A Delicious Spectacle

July 17, 2016
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The 7 Fingers can be depended on to fill everyone’s belly with spectacle.

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Theater Review: Reasons to Love the Maly Drama Theatre’s “Three Sisters”

March 4, 2016
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I’m deeply grateful to Arts Emerson for bringing the Maly Drama Theatre to Boston and hope for more.

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Fuse News: Arts Emerson Presents a Magisterial “Three Sisters”

March 3, 2016
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This is a beautifully directed staging (by Lev Dodin).

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Theater Review: Isango Ensemble’s “uCarmen”—A Captivating Version of a Classic

November 16, 2015
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A bewitching South African version of Bizet’s opera — performed with a distinctive blend of spunk and sass.

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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.

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Theater Review: “Ernest Shackleton Loves Me” – Musically Engaging But Dramatically Weak

September 27, 2015
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This show’s eclectic score is more progressive than what is typical of our determinedly conservative modern musical theater genre.

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Fuse Commentary: Five Minutes With NEA Chairman Jane Chu

May 6, 2015
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God speed Chairman Chu on her mission to make the fine arts less marginalized in a determinedly bottom line culture, obsessed with the pragmatic rather than the imaginative.

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