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Critic’s Corner: Scarlet and the Black review
Sarah Wandor Critic’s Corner Columnist “Scarlet and the Black,” made in 1983, follows a true story about a monsignor named Hugh O’Flaherty, who works in the Vatican during the Nazi occupation in World War II. It tells of his struggle to save Jews and allied prisoners of war and hide them in Rome. O’Flaherty forms […]
Critic’s Corner Column: The madness of ‘Don Quixote’ reveals wisdom
ALLEGRA THATCHER CRITIC’S CORNER COLUMNIST Current culture would like us to believe that what we can see is all that exists. Reality is merely what is before you; it’s what you can understand and nothing else. The Spanish author Cervantes challenges this belief, which has been held by people for centuries, in his lengthy work, […]
Critic’s Corner Column: Sacrifice for a greater good in “Newsies”
ALLEGRA THATCHER CRITIC’S CORNER COLUMNIST I recently had the pleasure of watching not the movie, but the recorded Broadway production, of “Newsies,” with the original cast. Granted, it was still on a movie screen. But it was definitely a greater experience than the two hour movie version. As a general note, the thing that never […]