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Robert Israel

Theater Interview: Tennessee Williams and Censorship

“A lot of censorship in America has to do with the impulse to shut down what women have to say, literally hanging and burning them as witches to shut them up.”

By: Robert Israel Filed Under: Featured, Interview, Theater Tagged: David Kaplan, Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival, Robert Israel

Book Review: “Cheese, Wine, and Bread” — On the Menu, Confession and Fermentation

The current rage for inserting the personal/confessional in everything from cookbooks to literary criticism can go too far.

By: Robert Israel Filed Under: Books, Featured, Food, Review Tagged: Cheese Wine and Bread, Katie Quinn, Robert Israel

Book Review: John Edgar Wideman — Masterful Stories that Bear the Weight of Reality

A singular muscularity infuses these short stories, a confidence that astonishes.

By: Robert Israel Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: John Edgar Wideman, Robert Israel, You Made Me Love You: Selected Stories

Book Review: “Jew-ish: Reinvented Recipes from a Modern Mensch” — Nosh Nirvana?

Jake Cohen is “modern” in that he takes a contemporary approach at spreading the gospel; he is an expert at using social media.

By: Robert Israel Filed Under: Books, Featured, Food, Review Tagged: Jake Cohen, jew-ish:reinvented recipies from a modern mensch, Robert Israel

Arts Feature: Best Stage Productions of 2020

Our theater critics pick some of the outstanding productions of a year truncated by COVID-19.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Theater Tagged: Bill-Marx, David Greenham, Robert Israel

Arts Remembrance: Terrence McNally — Dramatist and Father of the Serious Contemporary Musical 

The late Terrence McNally was more than just a masterful playwright. He also forged new roads in musical theater.

By: Christopher Caggiano Filed Under: Featured, Theater Tagged: Christopher Caggiano, Robert Israel, Terrence McNally

Theater Review: “The Children” — After the Damage Has Been Done

An apocalyptic backdrop gives the play urgency, especially given the current worldwide struggle to contain the Corvid-19 virus, which has already claimed thousands of lives.

By: Robert Israel Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Karen MacDonald, Paula Plum, Robert Israel, SpeakEasy Stage Company, The Children

Theater Review: “Pass Over” — An Unforgiving World

If one of the aims of art is to create a distinctively imaginative world, than Pass Over succeeds in generating a landscape of devastation, a hopeless place filled with gaping wounds and visible scars.

By: Robert Israel Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Antoinette Nwandu, Monica White Ndounou, Pass Over, Robert Israel, SpeakEasy Stage Company

Author Interview: Boston’s Poet Laureate — Porsha Olayiwola

“I wrote those poems because I think people need to read the truth and to hear the truth about romantic sensibilities between gay people.”

By: Robert Israel Filed Under: Featured, Interview, Review Tagged: I Shimmer Sometimes, Porsha Olayiwola, Robert Israel, Too

Jazz Concert Review: A Third Report from the 40th Montreal Jazz Festival —  Harmony Amidst Chaos

This year’s Montreal Jazz Festival Festival would have been more successful had it not been for all the construction ripping apart the city.

By: Robert Israel Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Melissa Aldana, Monreal Jazz Festival, Robert Israel, Tord Gustavsen

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