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A brilliant, sick brother, two hung-up sisters, and enough linguistic flair and dramatic panache for two or three plays
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Theater Review (NYC): Nance O’Neil
A few days in the life of Lizzie Borden, 12 years later.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): Roadkill Confidential
Do a controversial artist's activities at her rural studio go beyond the merely disgusting to include something more sinister?
Read More »Music Review: Indie Round-Up – Flipron, John Lee Hooker Jr., Whole Sky Monitor
John Lee Hooker Jr. blasts out high-powered, recession-era blues.
Read More »Commemorating the Revolution at Green-Wood Cemetery
Everywhere we go we walk on history.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): The Hyperbolist at Fringe
Joe Mazza's melange of puppetry, silent film, and vaudeville effectively fuses avant-garde philosophizing with the pulling of heartstrings.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): The Maid of Orleans by Friedrich Schiller at Fringe
Fine operatic singing fails to rescue this bumpy production of Schiller's tale of Joan of Arc.
Read More »Let’s Stop “Passing” and Start Dying Again
Pass the hat. Pass the ammunition. But whatever you do, don't just "pass."
Read More »Iva Withers: Nonagenarian Link to Broadway’s Golden Age
Withers played more performances of some of the greatest musicals than their original stars did, but never got to open a new show on Broadway.
Read More »Book Review: The Girls of Murder City: Fame, Lust, and the Beautiful Killers Who Inspired Chicago by Douglas Perry
In Chicago, during Prohibition, a crop of female killers became the biggest celebrities of the day.
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