Fri, January 27, 2012

Porgy and Bess On Broadway

Posted 5 days, 7 hours ago

Is the “Porgy and Bess” currently on Broadway worth seeing? Consider these other questions:
Is “Porgy and Bess” racist?
Is it an opera or a musical?
How important is that goat cart to you?

That “Porgy and Bess” is not just any show is glimpsed from its treatment in The New York…

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Road To Mecca Review: Athol Fugard Without Apartheid

Posted 1 day, 13 hours ago

“It’s not all that important, of course,” the minister says, helping Miss Helen fill out a form to put her in an old-age home. It is one of many shrewd little moments in Athol Fugard’s “The Road to Mecca”: The detail the pastor Marius is asking Miss Helen to remember for the…

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Susan Sontag Reborn

Posted 2 weeks, 1 day ago

At around 16 years of age, Susan Sontag 1. offered Thomas Mann a reinterpretation of his “Magic Mountain” 2. had her first affair with a woman, 3. met the professor she would marry shortly afterwards.
“I know what I want to do with my life,” Sontag wrote in one of the journals that is…

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