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Ralph Hammann

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Ralph Hammann

Oscar Grouch

by Ralph Hammann February 28, 2013

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  Once again we have witnessed that celebration of competition in the most ridiculous of venues, motion pictures. The Oscars are useful only for promoting the rare piece of artful entertainment that might otherwise go overlooked ...

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The Year in Cinema: Ralph Hammann

by Ralph Hammann January 3, 2013

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  Best of 2012 1. Life of Pi Like Avatar and Hugo before it, Ang Lee’s film uses 3-D to realize a unique world that immerses us completely. By turns magical and uncannily realistic, this is the year’s ...

Broken English

by Ralph Hammann August 16, 2012

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In what is easily the most fascinating premise of many a theater season, Katori Hall brilliantly exploits a rare medical condition, Foreign Accent Syndrome, to deliver a brittle and affecting satire of race and class ...

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Direct Emotions, Obstructed Views

by Ralph Hammann August 8, 2012

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  In keeping with its reputation for producing Russian plays, the WTF has dusted off a classic with the world premiere of a new translation that reveals it to be as timely as it was when ...

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Paradise Lost and Found

by Ralph Hammann July 25, 2012

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While I was not a big fan of the Todd Haynes film on which this new musical was based, I am glad that Messrs. Greenberg, Frankel and Korie were enamored of it. From the raw ...

Williamstown Theatre Festival

Time it Was

by Ralph Hammann July 14, 2011

I’d wondered if Michael Weller’s classic, which is set in the school year of 1965-66 and concerns a group of college roommates about to graduate, would come across today as a dated curiosity or a ...

Redemption Song

by Ralph Hammann July 6, 2011

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In her first season as the WTF’s artistic director, Jenny Gersten is defining herself as a risk taker who is willing to mount plays of conscience and depth. Three Hotels hardly promises the commercial success ...

Assault on Culture

by Ralph Hammann February 25, 2010

Look up the word “culture” in Webster’s New World Dictionary and you will find it defined as “the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively.” I fear for the loss of our ...