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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.

John McEnerney July 5, 2020 at 9:24 pm on Book Reconsideration: “A Confederacy of Dunces” — Still an American Comic Masterpiece?I read COD 40 years ago and again about 20 years ago, and the article makes me want to read...
Bill Marx July 5, 2020 at 6:09 pm on Rethinking the Repertoire #22 – Florence Price’s “Mississippi River Suite”A mistake: it should be Will Marion Cook — I have corrected in the piece.
Michael July 5, 2020 at 2:32 pm on Rethinking the Repertoire #22 – Florence Price’s “Mississippi River Suite”In the review, you mention composer Will Marion Clark, as a peer of Stills and Kaye: "Price wasn’t the early...
Dan Festa July 1, 2020 at 12:57 pm on Jazz Album Review: The Ultimate Peggy Lee — A Woman in ControlI was 11 years old when I first heard "Why Don't You Do Right." I fell in love with Miss...
Chuck Taylor June 30, 2020 at 3:54 pm on Music Interview: Jim Kweskin and Geoff MuldaurI googled jim kweskin earlier today on a whim and was glad to see he’s still going strong. He taught...