Review

Visual Arts Review: “Huma Bhabha — They Live” and “The Beyond — Georgia O’Keeffe and Contemporary Art”

April 10, 2019
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Pakistani-born artist Huma Bhabha is still very much at the edge of edgy; Georgia O’Keeffe much less so.

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Dance Review: Batsheva Dance Company of Israel — Strange Encounters and Outbursts

April 9, 2019
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This mysterious dance may have no meaning at all beyond its cryptic theatricality and movement. Or it may mean a lot.

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Opera Review: MassOpera’s “Die Fledermaus” — Modern Life, Lampooned

April 9, 2019
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MassOpera’s updated version of Die Fledermaus pulls off a major feat.

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Television Review: “Crashing” — The Power of Being Earnest

April 9, 2019
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Crashing shows us how Holmes’s innate sweetness and affability carries him through the awkwardness and indignities of being a working comedian.

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Classical CD Reviews: François Xavier-Roth conducts Berlioz, Yan Pascal Tortelier conducts Gounod, and JoAnn Falletta conducts Respighi

April 9, 2019
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A freshly thought through, energetically executed Berlioz disc; a lovely album that contains excellent performances of underperformed and unfamiliar repertoire that deserves to be heard and championed; a fine, sometimes inspired account of Respighi.

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Classical CD Reviews: Bernstein Complete Piano Music, “Chaplin’s Smile,” and Parry Piano Trios

April 8, 2019
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A trio of fine discs: Leonard Bernstein’s music for solo piano, Charlie Chaplin’s songs, and Charles Hubert Hastings Parry’s trios.

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Film Review: “The Wind” — Horror on the Prairie

April 8, 2019
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The Wind explores the fears that beset even strong, capable women stuck struggling for survival without community or social contact.

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Classical CD Reviews: François-Xavier Roth conducts Mahler 3 and Benjamin Zander conducts Mahler 9

April 7, 2019
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Benjamin Zander conducts a conspicuously fine Mahler Nine; François-Xavier Roth’s new account of Mahler’s Symphony no. 3 proffers nothing particularly special.

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WATCH CLOSELY: “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” — Coming of Age Cauldron

April 6, 2019
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The series presents plausible, relatable social situations within a weird, dark, quasi-magical framework.

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Theater Review: “The Haunted Life”– The Lyricism of Jack Kerouac’s Formative Years

April 6, 2019
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It’s Shakespeare in Lowell –the stage piled with ghostly corpses, the heroes all dead, the young bard in mourning.

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