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Arnold M. Epstein, Berwick’s longtime colleague at the School of Public Health, expressed high praise for Berwick...
...plot is straightforward. Looking back from 1989, where Heidi (MacKenzie Sigalos ’10) is a professor specializing in women’s art, the play moves from her high school days and follows her increasing frustration with both her life and her peers. As Heidi struggles to reconcile her disappointment with the outcome of her choices and with the women’s movement, she remains firm in her belief that “all people deserve to fulfill their own potential...
From there, Khuri’s drive to achieve sowed the seeds of the nascent Kingsley Flood. Khuri, who had been playing guitar and writing songs since high school, says he asked then-roommate Nick M. Balkin to “pick up a bass and just see what happened.” Luckily, they clicked musically, Khuri says. A series of fortuitous events, he adds, such as stumbling upon their future drummer in a bar, led them to the other three members of the current band...
...lose the thread of carefully-constructed madness, and become far less convincing as a result. The slightest note of hesitation in such a surrealistic production is enough to shatter the necessary suspension of disbelief. But since so much of “Leah” is spent in a high-energy, melodramatic atmosphere, these slips are more infrequent blemishes than a serious problem...
...once more, the legendary jazz drummer offered glimpsed memories of growing up in the city. At the age of seven, he was entranced by the lady next-door playing Gershwin on Sunday nights. As a teenager, he was sent to the principal’s office in Roxbury Memorial High for drumming incessantly on his desk. At 20 years of age, he collected a letter inviting him to join Luis Russell’s band at the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem. He accepted. “The rest,” said Haynes, fresh from his 85th birthday just...