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These are narratives she dexterously braids with William Faulkner’s “The Golden Land,” which, if not Faulkner’s best work, paints a cautionary picture of youthful libertinage in sunny Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 27, 2021

Robbins’s early style has been dexterously channeled by the choreographer Sarah O’Gleby in the City Center “High Button Shoes,” which is directed by John Rando.

From New York Times ● May 9, 2019

But Bortolameolli “kept his cool, delivering works by Saint-Saens and Dvorak while also dexterously navigating the audience's unfettered impulse for applauding between movements and sometimes kicking wine bottles down the stairs.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2018

Autoworkers of color in a cutthroat economy provide the characters and premise of Morisseau’s well-made play, set in the plant’s employee break room and dexterously mounted on Studio Theatre’s Mead stage by director Patricia McGregor.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 12, 2017

“Nothing in the world,” was the reply; and, replacing the paper, I saw him dexterously tear a narrow slip from the margin.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë


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