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Wednesday, May 7, 2025

Confusion of Purpose: Branden Jacob-Jenkins' Pulitzer-Prize Winning New Play

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Jon Michael Hill and Harry Lennix in Purpose . (Photo: Marc J. Franklin.) I’m a fan of the African-American playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkin...
Tuesday, May 6, 2025

The Beat Goes On: The Yardbirds Chart the Course

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“1966 was the high point of British pop art, and with hits like The Yardbirds’ 'Shapes of Things,' there was an incredible compressi...
Monday, April 28, 2025

A Baroque Drama of Biblical Proportions: Opera Atelier’s David and Jonathan

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The artists of Atelier Ballet in Opera Atelier's production of Charpentier's David and Jonathan . (Photo: Bruce Zinger.) Opera Ateli...
Monday, April 14, 2025

Doppelgänger: Barry Levinson's The Alto Knights

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Robert De Niro and Robert De Niro in The Alto Knights . (Photo: Warner Bros.) Witty, gripping and grandly entertaining, Barry Levinson’s The...
Sunday, April 13, 2025

Form and Legacy: Jane Corkin’s Vision of Photography as Fine Art

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A display wall from Between Life and Light at the Jane Corkin Gallery. The Jane Corkin Gallery’s 45th-anniversary exhibition, Between Life ...
Saturday, April 12, 2025

Two Visionaries Walk Into a Bar: Huysmans and Huxley

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(Both titles: Reaktion Books/University of Chicago Press.) “This was the attraction of the abyss over which one is leaning, that of a life l...
Tuesday, April 8, 2025

Potpourri: Love Life, Don’t Eat the Mangos and Beckett Briefs

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Kate Baldwin and Brian Stokes Mitchell in Love Life . (Photo: Joan Marcus.) The review of Don’t Eat the Mangos contains spoilers. The great...