Lucas Dean

Television: PEN15 — Middle School Made Uproarious

Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle turn in frequently hilarious but vulnerable performances as their adolescent counterparts.

One of the key reasons that Sex Education works is due to its frank depictions of what sex, or lack thereof, is actually like in high school.

Thomas Garvey June 25, 2019 at 1:29 pm on Theater Commentary: An Open Letter — to the “Open Letter”For what it's worth, the Norton Awards HAVE been parsed with almost surgical precision to "under-served" groups of late. The...
Terry June 24, 2019 at 3:01 pm on Music Review: Dead & Company — Rethinking the Grateful Dead LegacyThanks for the well informed And well crafted review
Pierce June 24, 2019 at 12:54 pm on Book Review: Napoleon — Savior or Hitler?Napoleon Bonaparte was certainly not a proto-Hitler. He was Napoleon Bonaparte. A brilliant military and political tactician, but a poor...
Jonson Lee June 23, 2019 at 4:33 pm on Jazz Commentary Drill Down: Dave Brubeck’s “Elementals”"...but room has to be made for a Eugene Wright bass solo, which is almost drowned out by the orchestra....
Steve Provizer June 21, 2019 at 5:32 pm on Jazz Commentary: Jazz and the Single Trumpet PlayerRich-Thanks for the comment. In terms of Chet, you seem to be pulling against the truism that there's no such...