In 1965, Polish-Jewish novelist Jerzy Kosinski wrote “The Painted Bird,” a novel widely seen as an autobiography of his own...
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Read moreThere is hardly any ethnic or religious group that is not maligned in “Holy Ghost,” Jon Tuttle’s World War II-era...
Read moreThe first act begins in medieval Japan. A married woman and her lover, both in kimonos and lots of hair,...
Read moreA scribe with severe writer’s block posts a sign in the window of his basement apartment. It announces that he...
Read more“The Wake” is a play with a lot of p’s in it: politics, philosophy, polemics, passion, and pathos. And enough...
Read moreAlan Rosenberg is too charming to play a world-class villain. And so he makes neo-con Paul Wolfowitz almost likeable. The...
Read moreIn person, Cris D’Annunzio is a gentle, soft-spoken man. Sweet, even. So you might not suspect that he was the...
Read moreAfter you’ve watched the subtle, nuanced performance of Dane Zinter as Fredrick, a pathetically lonely, obsessed madman in “The Collector,”...
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