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BlackCAST produces this poignant and provocative tale of the all-or-nothing fiery preacher Margaret Alexander with a heart and hand of iron. She rules her black Pentecostal congregation with conviction and unwavering certainty, until her ex-husband returns, penitent, with sorrowing news. The Reverend’s hard ideas of right and wrong soften with his appearance, as she begins to question the nature of her previous stubbornness. A VES production. 2 p.m., 8 p.m. Tickets $8; students $5; seniors $5. Adams House Pool Theater...
...role, gets many a laugh, and acts alongside the dynamically voiced Andrea Coleman, who turns in a hilarious performance as the Duchess. In a lesser role, Riley turns in a solid job; his duet with Luiz, “There Was a Time”, is quite poignant...
Marianne Moore said poetry is a world of "imaginary gardens with real toads in them." Shakur's poetry, spitting out violent imagery with an oracular tinge, was a summary and prophecy of his own brief life: an imaginary Uzi with real bullets. In his work, poignant portraits of ghetto misery (the brilliantly elegiac Brenda's Got a Baby) collided with cop-baiting insurrectionism ("Can't find peace on the streets/til the niggaz get a piece, f___ police, hear them screamin...
...saga was a national sensation, laced with anti-Semitism, demagoguery and racism. Oney's account, backed by 17 years of research, is the most comprehensive and detailed yet. The book teems with fresh information, notably about the identities and later careers of the lynchers. The most poignant of its gallery of portraits is of anguished lawyer William Smith, whose black, lowlife client was Frank's chief accuser but who, Smith decided, was probably the murderer. If, in its exhaustive thoroughness, Oney's narrative meanders, it does so like a vast river: cumulatively it moves with a steady, somber power...
...last year with his verbose and neverending The Corrections, and recently another Jonathan—Jonathan Lethem—hit the literary big-time. Fortunately for us, Lethem’s efforts yielded a smarter and more complicated (albeit grandiose) novel, The Fortress of Solitude. And this comic but poignant novel was penned by an author both exuberant and thoughtful, something audience members at First Parish Church learned last Thursday evening...