Paul Robeson

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Further thoughts on all things Stooge

Great minds working overtime. Plus, honoring ink-stained wretches, and fond farewells
Your superior correspondents were tempted to invoke the old cliché, “Great minds think alike.”
By PHILLIPE AND JORGE | May 12, 2010

Monster man and more

James Whale at the HFA
James Whale's career as a purveyor of marvelous film entertainments was brief.
By STEVE VINEBERG | September 08, 2009

Bottled-spider web

Trinity’s Richard III; plus Shakespeare’s Actresses in America
Richard III is a thing of additions and subtractions.
By CAROLYN CLAY | February 05, 2008

Lost auteur

Oscar Micheaux, plus El método
There’s no business like Micheaux business.
By GERALD PEARY | July 11, 2007

Other music meccas

By TED DROZDOWSKI | June 29, 2007

Counting Sheep

Charles Burnett at the MFA
Lyrical, contemplative, with a clear disdain for mainstream Hollywood, the African-American filmmaker Charles Burnett has cobbled out an unorthodox career.
By STEVE VINEBERG | June 05, 2007

Power suit

Chabrol’s latest; Paul Robeson at the MFA
Claude Chabrol initiated the French New Wave with Le beau Serge and Les cousins, and for a decade after his work was as shiny as anyone’s.
By GERALD PEARY | February 14, 2007

Ladies’ night

Rebekah Maggor presents Shakespeare’s actresses
One of the ironies of Shakespeare’s achievement is that his women — female characters vibrating with psychological truth — were created by a man to be performed by men.
By IRIS FANGER | August 08, 2006