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Review: American Falls

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A century ago, armed with little more than secondary knowledge gleaned from travel guides and Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography, Franz Kafka attempted to write an “American” novel. The manuscript shows its main character [...]
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Review: The Rumi Concert

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The Rumi-atics came out in full force to the Brown Foundation Performing Arts Theater at the Asia Society Texas Center on May 22 to see the great sage and Rumi translator and scholar Coleman Barks. If anyone can bring the 13th [...]
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Review: Utopia/Dystopia

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Review: Utopia/Dystopia: Construction and Destruction in Photography and Collage Museum of Fine Arts, Houston March 11-June 10 www.mfah.org A woman in a white dress her lower half anyway, floats dreamily against the backdrop of a hazy Manhattan skyline; her head and torso eclipsed [...]
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Review: The Unexpected Man

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After seeing The Unexpected Man, I am at a loss to understand why God of Carnage has received so much more attention. The Unexpected Man has everything to do with the way we live our lives. It is a play about how time eats us [...]
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Review: La Cage aux Folles

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George Hamilton kissed a guy. OK, so a few other things happened before that in the Theatre Under the Stars production of La Cage aux Folles, starring the ever-bronzed Hamilton as Georges and Broadway veteran [...]
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