Ken Burns’ new documentary series Jazz completes the trilogy that began with The Civil War and continued with Baseball. It…
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Suggested reading: In Defiance: The Battle Against General Noriega Fought from Panama’s Embassy in Washington (1999), Juan B. Sosa Rembrandt…
Filmed in 1998, this adroit BBC/WGBH-Boston production of William Shakespeare’s King Lear is of particular note for preserving Ian Holm’s…
1999 marks the centennial of the birth of Noel Coward and Great Performances provides us early in the year with…
One day a movie or TV show will tell the story of a Latino family as dysfunctional as the family…
On August 12, 1915 the Sandringham Company – a group of volunteers from King George V’s royal estate – advanced…
Playing With the Edge: The Photographic Achievement of Robert Mapplethorpe (1995), Arthur Coleman Danto In 1989, the Corcoran Gallery, a…
Buckle on your swash me hearties, the pirate ship is heaving into view. Those on board include dashing brigands, skulking…
It’s a pity the new TNT miniseries "Nuremberg", adapted from Joseph Persico’s nonfiction novel, doesn’t sustain the queasy ambiguity of…
Suggested reading: Money Matters: Consequences of Campaign Finance Reform in House Elections (1999), Robert K. Goidel The Money Chase: Congressional…
Is it possible that anybody hasn’t heard the lyric: I knew a man Bojangles/And he danced for you/In worn out…
Cervantes’ great (and voluminous) novel, Don Quixote de la Mancha, with its captivatingly eccentric hero, witty satire, and literate wisdom,…
Our review of the 2003 Broadway production with Vanessa Redgrave For Eugene O’Neill, Long Day’s Journey Into Night was an…
The Thin Blue Line – Errol Morris’s documentary about Randall Dale Adams, the man wrongly convicted of murdering a Dallas…