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Wednesday, August 7, 2019

Fog: The Last Black Man in San Francisco

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Jonathan Majors and Jimmie Fails in The Last Black Man in San Francisco . (Photo: Peter Prato/A24) Director Joe Talbot’s feature film...
Monday, August 5, 2019

Song and Dance, Part I: Wild Rose and Yesterday

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Jessie Buckley in Wild Rose . The review of Yesterday contains spoilers.   As Rose-Lynn, the young Glaswegian woman determine...
Wednesday, July 31, 2019

Tumult! The Incredible Life and Music of Tina Turner

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  “Physical strength in a woman, that’s what I am. If you’re unhappy with anything, get rid of it. When you’re free, your true creat...
Monday, July 29, 2019

New Plays: Tell Me I’m Not Crazy and The Hunt

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Mark Blum and Jane Kaczmarek in Tell Me I’m Not Crazy . (Photo: Joseph J. O'Malley) The four characters in Sharyn Rothstein’s ...
Thursday, July 25, 2019

On Nonverbal Cinema: Obscure (2019) and The Color of Pomegranates (aka Sayat Nova, 1969/2014)

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Kylr Coffman in Obscure (2019)/ Cinema began as a record of physical movement. The advent of sound brought it more in line with t...
Monday, July 22, 2019

The Skin of Our Teeth: A World in Crisis

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Ariana Venturi in the Berkshire Theatre Group production of The Skin of Our Teeth . (Photo: Emma K. Rothenberg-Ware) Thornton Wilder’...
Wednesday, July 17, 2019

Uncanny Kingdom: The Enigmatic Art of Mowry Baden

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Marsupial , 2013, by Mowry Baden. (Steel aluminum fabric rubber. Image: VAG) Mowry Baden , curated by Grant Arnold, Vancouver Art Gal...
Monday, July 15, 2019

The Lehman Trilogy: Intimate Epic

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Simon Russell Beale, Ben Miles, Adam Godley in The Lehman Trilogy . (Photo: Stephanie Berger) I’ve never seen anything quite like The...
Thursday, July 11, 2019

What We Talk about When We Talk about Anime Logic: Your Name (Kimi no Na wa / 君の名は, 2016)

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A scene from Your Name (Kimi no Na wa / 君の名は, 2016). I want to talk about anime logic and why it's not the same as plot holes, u...
Monday, July 8, 2019

Summer Musicals: Rock and Roll Man and The Light in the Piazza

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The cast of Rock and Roll Man: The Alan Freed Story . (Photo: Emma K. Rothenberg-Ware) Rock and Roll Man: The Alan Freed Story i...
Wednesday, July 3, 2019

People Among the People: The Public Art of Susan Point

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Artist Susan Point. (Photo:: MonteCristo ) It’s all a question of scale. Recently on the West Coast we had the great opportunity ...
Monday, July 1, 2019

Berkshires Season Openers: Outside Mullingar, A Raisin in the Sun and A Human Being, of a Sort

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James McMenamin and Shannon Marie Sullivan in Outside Mullingar . (Photo: Emma K. Rothenberg-Ware) John Patrick Shanley’s 2014 play O...
Thursday, June 27, 2019

Love in a Fallen City: Transit (2018)

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Franz Rogowski and Paula Beer in Transit (2018). The German Fascists are taking Europe by force. Cities are closed off and raids ...
Tuesday, June 25, 2019

Glitter Bomb: Rocketman

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Taron Egerton as Elton John in Rocketman . The Elton John of the 1970s was a rock phenomenon that dominated airwaves and album sa...
Monday, June 24, 2019

Rutherford and Son: Imitation Ibsen

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Roger Allam in Rutherford and Son at London's National Theatre.. (Photo: Johan Persson) Roger Allam delivers a flawless performa...
Wednesday, June 19, 2019

Forbidden: The Strange History of Censorship

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Photo by Valentin Kopalov. “All the desires we try to suffocate will drown in our soul and poison it. The only way to get rid of...
Monday, June 17, 2019

The Starry Messenger: Adrift in the Universe

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Matthew Broderick in The Starry Messenger . (Photo: Mark Brenner) I seem to be temperamentally drawn to Kenneth Lonergan ’s plays an...
Thursday, June 13, 2019

L'art pour l'humanité: A Bread Factory, Parts I and II (2018)

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George Young, Trevor St. John, and Janet Hsieh in A Bread Factory, Part One (2018) The question of the power of art is an ancient one...
Monday, June 10, 2019

Arthur Miller in New York and London: All My Sons and Death of a Salesman

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Benjamin Walker, Tracy Letts, Annette Bening, and Hampton Fluker in All My Sons . (Photo: Joan Marcus) All My Sons was the first...
Monday, June 3, 2019

Small Island: The National Theatre Works the Room

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Gershwyn Eustache Jr. and Leah Harvey in Small Island at London's National Theatre. (Photo: Brinkhoff/Mögenburg) This review cont...