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The story of the Original Nine, the renegade group led by King to start an alternative women’s circuit, is stirringly recapped.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 20, 2023

“Purgatorio,” which featured amplification and acoustic design in the hall, is comparatively flattened, its preserved recording of an ancient Jewish prayer less stirringly grand when balanced with the orchestra.

From New York Times • Apr. 27, 2023

Perhaps the story’s most powerful scene occurs at the end, when Emma’s parents — stirringly played by David Manis and Paulsen — get a chance to speak their minds to her directly.

From Washington Post • Nov. 22, 2022

At the beginning of “The Inspection,” Elegance Bratton’s stirringly intimate drama about a gay Black man in the U.S. military, one personal hell is exchanged for another.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 17, 2022

But stirringly full of incident as this tale is, Mr. Grey never forgets that it is love that really makes the world go round.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 4th, 1920 by Various