Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg walk out on hate.
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Theater Review (NYC): Cymbeline
Cymbeline is one of those seldom-produced Shakespeare plays we English majors read in college but rarely get the opportunity to see.
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The Spanish composer Federico Mompou, who died in 1987, is beginning to get his due in the zeitgeist.
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A brilliant, sick brother, two hung-up sisters, and enough linguistic flair and dramatic panache for two or three plays
Read More »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.
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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.
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