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Saturday, August 16, 2025

Stratford and the Shaw Festival I: Shakespeare

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From left: André Sills as Polixenes, Sara Topham as Hermione, and Graham Abbey as Leontes with members of the company of  The Winter's T...
Tuesday, August 12, 2025

Soluble Thoughts: Late André Breton

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André Breton claimed with these glasses he could see the future. He was right. (Photo: InLibris.) “How very hard to run a movement and be on...
Monday, July 28, 2025

Neglected Gem: Mike’s Murder (1984)

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Debra Winger in James Brooks'  Mike's Murder . (Ladd Company/Warner Bros.) James Bridges directed Debra Winger’s breakthrough perfor...
Sunday, July 20, 2025

Pirates of the Mississippi

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David Hyde Pierce and the cast of Pirates! The Penzance Musical . (Photo: Joan Marcus.) At sixty-six, David Hyde Pierce is so slender and li...
Wednesday, July 16, 2025

All Shook Up: Grooving on the Elvis Presley Jukebox

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Ryan Mac and the company of All Shook Up . (Photo: Diane Sobolewski.) The current production of All Shook Up , Joe DiPietro’s parodic jukebo...
Monday, July 14, 2025

Splat: James Gunn's Superman

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Superman (David Corenswet), looking glum. (Warners Brothers.)  The beginning of James Gunn’s new iteration of the Man of Steel is somewhat p...
Sunday, July 13, 2025

Hauntology: Spectral Realism in Literature, Film and Art

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(University of Texas Press.)                                   (Duke University Press.) “What remains to be said about an absence that canno...