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Infinite pleasure

John Banville's playful universe
Admit it, fellow scribblers. You'd sell your soul to come up with an opening sentence like "Of the things we fashioned for them that they may be comforted, dawn is the one that works."
By ED SIEGEL  |  February 16, 2010

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Magic tricks

Alice Munro has them, Philip Roth doesn’t
You have to give a seventysomething writer credit for daring to begin a book with “He’d lost his magic.”
By ED SIEGEL  |  November 11, 2009

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Death and transfiguration

Fugard at New Rep, plus Spalding Gray , Conor McDermottroe, and The Random Caruso
There are some playwrights whose work makes you think that a night at the theater is going to be an eat-your-vegetables affair, but then you see a sharp production of one of their plays and you realize the menu is meatier than you had remembered.
By ED SIEGEL  |  March 03, 2009

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Blackbird at SpeakEasy

A play about a confrontation between two desperate nobodies.
The year 2007 was a banner one for British theater.
By ED SIEGEL  |  February 25, 2009

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Rooted

Jhumpa Lahiri tends her garden
Jhumpa Lahiri won a Pulitzer Prize with her first collection of short stories, Interpreter of Maladies .
By ED SIEGEL  |  April 22, 2008

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Game faces

The Clean House at New Rep; Gary at Boston Playwrights’ Theatre
There’s something awe-inspiring about watching an ensemble in which everyone is performing at the top of his or her game.
By ED SIEGEL  |  March 04, 2008

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The yenta monologues

Judy Gold’s Jewish-mother complex
What do you call a Conservative Jewish lesbian mother of two boys? Very funny, in the case of Judy Gold.
By ED SIEGEL  |  December 26, 2007

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Backstage masterpiece

Is Slings + Arrows better than The Sopranos?
As much as I adored The Sopranos , I have to wonder about the rush to anoint it the best television series ever.
By ED SIEGEL  |  July 03, 2007

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Don’t be afraid of the Dark

Murakami’s noirish novel is playful, too
The typical Haruki Murakami protagonist is torn between women who are unattainably gorgeous and those who are just unbelievably cute. An excerpt from Murakami's After Dark (mp3)
By ED SIEGEL  |  May 16, 2007

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The importance of being Ridiculus

Oscar Wilde at the ART
You wouldn’t think that an effective way into the heart of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest would be to play down the comedy’s slapstick farce, stentorian wit, fast pacing, or romantic heterosexuality.
By ED SIEGEL  |  January 02, 2007

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Players' prince

ASP Hamlet takes the Strand stage
This Hamlet is as lucid a production as you’re going to see.
By ED SIEGEL  |  October 24, 2006

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Zone clone

Ryan Landry channels Rod Serling  
The very thought of Ryan Landry doing The Twilight Zone is enough to bring a smile to the face.
By ED SIEGEL  |  October 18, 2006
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