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Chaim Potok’s novel My Name is Asher Lev tells the age-old tale of youthful rebellion in the name of art. Like James Joyce’s Stephen Dedalus, Asher is a young man with a vocation to express himself creatively. His destiny impels him to become a painter, even at the risk of offending his parents and his [...]
Continue Reading →John van Druten’s Bell, Book & Candle is a play from a time when subtext was anything not acceptable to polite convention. His characters have class, in a vaguely bohemian milieu (it’s set ostensibly in the 1950s’ Greenwich Village), and they preen and pose with the regulated pauses of the great screen stars of the [...]
Continue Reading →“The house in Brooklyn is a symbol for me…it’s a risk, it’s a gamble with myself and others.”
Thus George Davis, onetime novelist, fiction editor late of Harper’s, when, in 1940, he undertook to set up what today would be called “an artist’s colony” in a somewhat dilapidated Victorian house in Brooklyn Heights. The place [...]
Continue Reading →Shakespeare’s Macbeth is the story of a Scottish nobleman’s ambition leading to his downfall; the play follows the transformation of a war hero into a murderous villain and traitor, with, to explain such an extreme change, the influence of baleful supernatural forces in the form of three witches, or “weird sisters.” The power of the [...]
Continue Reading →Director Eric Ting of the Long Wharf set himself a considerable task this holiday season: how to defamiliarize the overly familiar? It's a Wonderful Life, the seasonal chestnut roasting on televisions all over the U.S. at Christmastime as a cinematic classic from Frank Capra starring wholesome Jimmy Stewart and winsome Donna Reed, has been re-imagined [...]
Continue Reading →Colin Quinn’s Long Story Short is a very familiar experience—a combination of listening to a jokey guy inveighing about the State of Things in a friendly bar, or of following the manic lecture of a comic prof who affects the “common man” touch, or of feeling like the studio audience for some televised raconteur who [...]
Continue Reading →Bernard Berenson, the famous art connoisseur, made his name and reputation through a seemingly unfailing fidelity to his own cognizance of what constitutes the characteristic style of a master; his attributions made the fortune of the dealers and collectors who sold and owned the works he authenticated, or, likewise, could undermine a buyer or seller [...]
Continue Reading →Yeah, I know, everyone’s having a collective snowgasm in the snowpocalypse, but, should you decide to put your head outside your cave, there are some theatrical events happening this weekend that should make the snowjob of digging out worth your while.
First of all, Thursday night, Jan. 13th, the Yale Cabaret, led by Andrew Kelsey [...]
Continue Reading →What if the job you perform daily caused someone else’s death? A death someone chose, using your regular performance of your duty as the means to her deliberate end? The relation of the killer to the killed in that equation is explored in renowned playwright Athol Fugard’s recent play, The Train Driver, now showing at [...]
Continue Reading →Ella Fitzgerald was known as “the First Lady of Song” for a reason. Her way with a lyric was impeccable, her delivery making the listener discover nuances in even the most well-known standard (her versions of the Cole Porter songbook are for me the best of both worlds: Ella at her best and Porter rendered [...]
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