Why didn’t anyone tell me sooner that Jersey Boys is so good? I guess it did pick up its fair share of Tonys in ’06 (including Best Musical), but I have a distinct bias against jukebox musicals, especially after having to sit through the execrable The Times They Are A-Changin’, and always dismissed the show [...]

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I’m seeing six plays in seven days this week (yesterday was my day off), doing reviews of the Fringe Festival for CurtainUp. The Fringe reviews are here, and my first contribution is here. Writing that little paragraph led me to realize that above a certain threshold of competence with the English language, everyone’s writing sounds [...]

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I saw The Dark Knight nearly two weeks ago, and it’s taken me that long to figure out what I think of it and why. In a nutshell, what I think of it is this: the first chunk (not quite half) of the movie is completely brilliant; the rest is a very, very good action [...]

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