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Enter Marie Christine, probably the most highly anticipated of this new art-musical genre. Lyrics and music are by Michael John LaChiusa, one of the most acclaimed of the post-Sondheim composers. It has a story of thematic heft and historical color: a retelling of the Medea myth, set in...
But the show works better as an intellectual exercise than a moving theatrical experience. Director Graciela Daniele's rather dry production dwells in ponderous shadows for much of the first act and shifts abruptly (and half-heartedly) to Gay Nineties Chicago in the second. The transformation of Marie's lover...
JUNK OR TREASURE? Before you put Grandma's silver service up for bid on eBay, shouldn't you get an idea of its worth? That's the notion behind eppraisals.com which will evaluate your antiques, furniture and collectibles. Send in a digital image and a detailed description of the object...
Was AIDS caused by human error? That's the intriguing question that former BBC reporter Edward Hooper tries to answer in The River (Little, Brown), an exhaustive but quite readable tome that is part travelogue, part scientific inquiry, part investigative journalism. Hooper tries to establish what a panel of scientists...
Which brings Hooper back to where he started--with an intriguing question and no definitive answer. A half-century after the trials, there's not much hard evidence left. Samples of the original vaccines still exist, but time may have degraded them; any analysis would be far from convincing.