An assimilated Jewish composer bonds with his peasant-class Polish housekeeper in wartime Warsaw – but will it mean escape, or existential collapse?
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Theater Review (NYC): ‘Café Resistance’
Failures of script, storyline, direction and acting make 'Café Resistance' a misbegotten attempt at a play-with-music on a serious subject.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Awake in the Dark’ by Shira Nayman
Shira Nayman's stage adaptation of her own fiction powerfully evokes a war child's search for her roots – with a shocking twist.
Read More »Theater Review: ‘Our Class’ – Former Playmates Become Murderers
Based on Jan T. Gross' 'Neighbors,' Tadeusz Slobodzianek's 'Our Class' chronicles the destiny of 10 classmates over a period of 80 years.
Read More »Book Interview: John Lisle, Author of ‘The Dirty Tricks Department: Stanley Lovell, The OSS, and The Masterminds of World War II Secret Warfare’
"History should be about storytelling."
Read More »Fantastic Fest Film Reviews: ‘Last Night in Soho’ with Thomasin McKenzie and Diana Rigg; ‘Freaks Out’ Will Shake You
"Last Night in Soho" and "Freaks Out" were two of the most intense films at this year's Fantastic Fest.
Read More »Book Review: ‘A Land Like You’ by Tobie Nathan
'A Land Like You' by Tobie Nathan is a wonderful and magical love story that brings an era and a country to life in beautiful detail.
Read More »Book Review: ‘Churchill’s Shadow Raiders’ by Damien Lewis
'Churchill's Shadow Raiders' evocatively and entertainingly tells the shadow of the raiders - the British commandos - who helped turn the tide of WWII.
Read More »Visiting the Freud Museum in London
On your next London trip, go see the house where Sigmund Freud spent the last year of his life.
Read More »Board Game Review: ‘Pacific ’42: Admiral’ from MWE
A chess-like battle for conquest of the sea in World Ware Two's Pacific theater
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