Smart staging and physical comedy make this an accessible if grisly piece of ancient Greek theater for a modern audience.
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A cast of five tells an intense, streamlined version of the Scottish play. In Japanese, but I hardly noticed.
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Flashbacks of two different kinds roil Alicia's mind in a very good St. Patrick's Day episode.
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The pianist devised an unusual program of piano transcriptions of great composers' works by other composers.
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Shocking at it may seem in TV drama, sometimes everything works out fine in the end.
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The wizardly puppetry of Wakka Wakka is back, this time with a fiery tragicomedy about horses, hubris, and the Icelandic bank crisis.
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The '90s star enlisted legendary bassist Tony Levin, some humpback whales, and her own emotional depth.
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A versatile actress, Broadway belter, and now pop songstress, Megan Hilty stretches out artistically on her debut CD.
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Alicia hardens her armor against her job's moral ambiguities in an exceptionally tense episode.
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