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A Watchful Eye On… Sherlock Holmes
August 27, 2020Sherlock Holmes as a strict Victorian period piece is over and done with, but the character...
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Theater Review: A Free Man of Color Starring Jeffrey Wright
August 24, 2020Given 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
August 24, 2020Patti LuPone, however, does not stumble. In her mesmerizing performance of the show’s best song “Invisible”...
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Movie Time Nostalgia, Part 4: We Are All Children Of Paradise
August 20, 2020A movie can do a lot of things to an audience. It may move them, amuse...
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Theatre Review: Blood and Gifts at the National Theatre, London
August 13, 2020Pop music functions as a metonym for the cultural appropriations and misunderstandings which occur onstage. Is...
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Book Review: Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? by James Shapiro
July 16, 2020Beginning around 1800, the hunt started to find the “real” Shakespeare, the noble visionary who had...
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Book Review: Shakespeare’s Lost Kingdom: The True History of Shakespeare and Elizabeth by Charles Beauclerk
July 10, 2020I would have thought Shakespeare in Love might have advanced our understanding of the authorship debate,...
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A Conversation with Author and McSweeney’s Editor Paul Collins
June 6, 2020"I think most scholars tend to trust the First Folio more than anything else, not because...
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Casanova by Ian Kelly
May 23, 2020Ah, Casanova. Men want to be him, and women want to be with him. Or is...
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Home: A Memoir of My Early Years by Julie Andrews
May 14, 2020Again, it took an intervention, this time by Moss Hart, to point her in the right...