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Lindsay Burdge plays an American flight attendant who plunges into an amour fou in Paris to erase the pain of her lover's suicide in Nathan Silver's '70s-style psychodrama, 'Thirst Street,' narrated ...

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It may be held in the Hub, but the multiday cocktail festival Thirst Boston, now in its fourth year, is increasingly tapping talent that spills across state borders — thereby giving guests a chance to ...

Lindsay Burdge's intrepid performance as a woman unable to let go of a one-night stand galvanizes Nathan Silver's sharply stylized character study. Nathan Silver has an eye for a great face — a ...