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★★★☆☆ The fault, dear reader, is not in the production, but in the play. The job of adapting Shakespeare in Love, 1999’s Academy Award-winning best picture, was so difficult that even Tom...
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Not really a speakeasy, but a great neighborhood bar Chances are, when a bar calls itself a speakeasy, it’s really not, since not too many bars from the Prohibition era still exist. But it...
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PHOTO BY MAGGIE HALL PHOTOGRAPHY My spouse and I were the only two black people in the theater. There were no black actors or actors of color in the play. We couldn’t understand why until the...
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