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October 23, 2015 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

My Zinc Bed

Ensemble Theatre, October 15 On the page David Hare’s My Zinc Bed is often a cold as the cocktails that litter its story. The three characters jostle and banter, love and betray, but the stakes seem small, with Hare’s motives split between a cursory investigation of the nature of addiction,…

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October 20, 2015 / Concert Reviews - Archive

John McLaughlin and the 4th Dimension

City Recital Hall, October 8 The first time I heard the Mahavishnu Orchestra it was like being jolted by an electric shock – and that was just on the radio! Now, despite the years flying past, John McLaughlin looks about two decades younger than 73, and he remains one of…

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October 16, 2015 / Features - Archive

John McLaughlin – Still shaping the future

Purists loathe him, and the feeling, it seems, is mutual. John McLaughlin calls purists “the bane of the world”, and has variously upset the jazz ones by being too rocky, the fusion ones by being too Indian and the Indian ones by being too western. Meanwhile he has left a…

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