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Theater Interview: Kai Maristed on “Paul and Émile” — The Vicissitudes of Friendship

September 22, 2025
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“If my work does have a recurrent theme, it is the pressure of the political/historical moment on individual choice.”

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Coming Attractions: September 15 Through 28 — What Will Light Your Fire

September 15, 2025
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Our expert critics supply a guide to film, visual art, theater, author readings, television, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.

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Book Review: Soprano, Queen, Myth — Maria Callas in Jerome Charyn’s “Maria La Divina”

September 16, 2025
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At the very least, Jerome Charyn’s considerable novelistic imagination should send readers back to any number of documentary films and, most important, to the still very real fact of Maria Callas’s vital recorded legacy.

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Book Review: “The Art and Life of Francesca Alexander” — One of a Kind

September 18, 2025
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An illuminating book about the 19th-century American artist Francesca Alexander, a Bostonian who shaped a very different life for herself and for her art.

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Jazz Concert Reviews: Mary Halvorson’s Amaryllis and the Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol Quintet at the Regattabar

September 23, 2025
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Gigs by superb bands led by Mary Halvorson and Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol at the Regattabar.

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Arts Commentary: Five Things Arts Organizations Can Do Right Now

September 15, 2025
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Now is a time for artists and arts organizations to stand shoulder to shoulder with other fields and disciplines that produce care in our communities.

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Arts Remembrance: In Memoriam, Christoph von Dohnányi (1929-2025)

September 13, 2025
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Christoph von Dohnányi was a rare breed: a truly great artist whose mind never rested and whose standards never settled.

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Theater Review: “Primary Trust” — Dramatizing Acts of Random Kindness

September 20, 2025
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Playwright Eboni Booth won last year’s Pulitzer Prize for Drama for this script, and it is a heartwarming, well-constructed, one-act.

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Theater Interview: “Investigating the New” — Actor/Director Vincent Murphy Reflects on Life and Theater

September 18, 2025
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What has made for a successful life in the theater? Living by the values Vincent Murphy imbibed as a member of Boston Children’s Theatre in the ’60s: “cooperation, creativity, listening, and play.”

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Classical Album Review: Anna Clyne’s “Abstractions”

September 6, 2025
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That composer Anna Clyne is a gifted miniaturist is evident in “Abstractions”, a set of five movements offering musical commentary on the works of five contemporary visual artists.

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