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Live singing, anachronistic hairstyles, filthy sewers and STAAAAARS

Posted on December 31, 2012 by

…..alternate title: Les Miserables: Quelle Fromage! Which I cut because it wasn’t really fair — in fact, the thing I appreciated most about the dark and gritty (and seriously hygiene-impaired) Les Mis was the up-close-and-personal, scaled back approach to the solo … Continue reading →

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A study in contrasts

Posted on January 23, 2012 by

This week I had the privilege of attending performances of Richard III at BAM, which starred Kevin Spacey and War Horse at Lincoln Center, which emphatically did not. Rather than take the time to thoughtfully review both, by which point … Continue reading →

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I’d like to say a word for the cowboy…er..critic

Posted on January 4, 2011 by

More than ever, critical authority comes from the power of the critic’s prose, the force and clarity of her language; it is in the art of writing itself that information and knowledge are carried, in the sentences themselves that literature … Continue reading →

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