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Theater Review: “All My Sons” — An American Antique

July 25, 2012
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If this sounds like a melodrama, that is because Arthur Miller wrote one. “All My Sons” was very much a product of the dramatist’s times and politics.

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Theater Review: “The Swan” — Not Your Average Love Triangle

July 22, 2012
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“The Swan” is a bold choice for a theater company and demands excellent actors and direction to keep it afloat.

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Fuse Classical Music Tip: Aimez Vous Brahms? Then Head to Tanglewood

July 21, 2012
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Tired of glitz and looking for a transformative musical experience? You can do no better than to hear this relatively unheralded musician play some of the most sublime music ever written.

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Theater Review: Uncommon Summer Theater — “Animals Out of Paper”

July 7, 2012
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Deftly directed by May Adrales, aided by sensitive sound, lighting, and costume design, “Animals Out of Paper” is exciting summer theater.

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Theater Review: Two Plays Chronicle the Lives of Pioneering Women

July 4, 2012
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Two Berkshire theaters are offering one-woman shows this summer. Both scripts feature intelligent, frank, and charismatic women. Both productions star gifted and seasoned actors.

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Book Review: Memoir as Love Letter — “Into the Garden with Charles”

June 4, 2012
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Into the Garden with Charles reads like a great love letter: beautifully written, full of feeling, a document of an intimate connection that never lost its wonder for the author.

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Theater Review: Hershey Felder in “George Gershwin Alone”

June 1, 2012
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What “George Gershwin Alone” provides is a light, pleasant evening of familiar music, with playwright, pianist, and actor Hershey Felder performing excerpts from a dozen or so of Gershwin’s best-known works.

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Book Review: The “Three Lives” of Stefan Zweig

May 19, 2012
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Stefan Zweig’s was a dramatic, action-packed, intense epic of a life, but Oliver Matuschek’s biography, Three Lives, simply plods along.

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Theater Review: Bravo! Hershey Felder in “Maestro: Leonard Bernstein (A Play With Music)”

May 1, 2012
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Directed ably by Joel Zwick, a long-time collaborator of Hershey Felder’s, the excellent Maestro: Leonard Bernstein includes the performer singing, playing the piano, and conducting as well as telling stories.

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Author Interview: “An Accident of Hope” — Analyzing the Psychotherapy of Anne Sexton

April 19, 2012
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“An Accident of Hope” is a fascinating read for anyone interested in writers, writing, psychotherapy, women, medical ethics and American society just before the great upheaval of the 1960s.

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