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...Rick Levin spoke so graciously at my inauguration that I wouldn’t dream of predicting the obvious—except to say that New Haven is my hometown, and I intend to be fiercely disloyal to the home team...
...program kicks off with the world premiere of Rick Winterson’s Two Ex-Smokers. Like the other two plays of the evening, it features only two characters—in this case, nameless ex-smokers played by John Pattavina and Georgia Rushing. As the two banter about the pros and cons of quitting smoking, Rushing’s ex-smoker periodically delivers monologues revealing that quitting may be neither as easy nor as rewarding as the two ex-smokers outwardly claim...
...Rick Winterson
...final piece of the evening was “Boys” by Rick Moody. The short story explores the changing lives of maturing children with a narrative style perhaps closer to poetry than prose. LeBow, who played the father last year in the A.R.T.’s world premiere of Adam Rapp’s Nocturne, lent his rich voice to a blunt delivery that gave the comic and dramatic moments of the story equal power. The story is too short and well crafted to ruin with synopsis, but it reveals the humanity of the sort of rambunctious...
...longtime pacifist, I have always deplored our tendency to dehumanize and demonize our adversaries. Not this time. By savagely slaughtering thousands of innocent people, the terrorists have forfeited their membership in civilized society and deserve the same regard a bug zapper shows a swarm of stinging insects. RICK ANSORGE Macungie...