Tom Russell: American Primitive Man
March 15, 2024
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Theater Review: A Free Man of Color Starring Jeffrey Wright
March 12, 2024Given the grandeur of its lofty aspirations, the play inevitably fails on some levels, like the...
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Theater Review: Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Starring Patti LuPone, Sherie Rene Scott
March 12, 2024Patti LuPone, however, does not stumble. In her mesmerizing performance of the show’s best song “Invisible”...
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Theatre Review: Blood and Gifts at the National Theatre, London
March 2, 2024Pop music functions as a metonym for the cultural appropriations and misunderstandings which occur onstage. Is...
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Nicole Atkins: Femme Noir
December 31, 2023She’s been called the female Roy Orbison, a psychedelic metalhead who grew up listening to Elvis...
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Daniel Barenboim at La Scala
November 12, 2023Drama number three was the presence on the podium of Daniel Barenboim, the child prodigy born...
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Sister Rosetta Tharpe and the British Blues Revival
October 25, 2023Interest in Rosetta in Britain was part and parcel of a larger trend: the postwar blues...
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Broadway Review: Nice Work If You Can Get It
September 30, 2023Broderick gives a generous performance, turning on his patented man-child charm when called upon, but also...