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Theater News: There Goes the Neighborhood — Gold Dust Orphans to Lose their Fenway Home

“I saw it coming three years ago, when there was a frenzy of development in the Fenway. Now the neighborhood looks like a corporate mall.”

Legally Blind contains sufficient satiric sting because it takes aim at the current fashion for musicals in which handicapped souls are healed.

Ron October 22, 2019 at 4:43 pm on Theater Review: Another View of “Indecent” — Flat and ObviousI have just come across this dialogue and find myself very interested in Mr. Peary's dismissinveness toward Sholem Asch's work,...
Matt Hanson October 22, 2019 at 4:27 pm on Literary Appreciation: The Late Harold Bloom — Pursuer of “Difficult Pleasures”Yeah, I think that Bloom was sort of misread (appropriately enough!) that he was some kind of conservative because of...
Allen Michie October 22, 2019 at 10:05 am on Literary Appreciation: The Late Harold Bloom — Pursuer of “Difficult Pleasures”This is a fine overview of Bloom's most influential work. It's good to see an appreciation of Bloom in the...
Harvey Blume October 21, 2019 at 8:14 pm on Literary Appreciation: The Late Harold Bloom — Pursuer of “Difficult Pleasures”Fair enough. A friend pointed me to piece with links to two videos in which a sadly palsied Bloom shares...
Matt Hanson October 21, 2019 at 5:29 pm on Literary Appreciation: The Late Harold Bloom — Pursuer of “Difficult Pleasures”Well, I was certainly aware of those aspects of Bloom's life and work, among plenty of others that I didn't...