Debra Cash

Dance Review: The Akram Khan Company — Remembering, Selectively

July 10, 2026
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In “Thrikra: Night of Remembering,” Akram Khan’s searing imagery of female ritual and sacrifice is shadowed by what the work chooses not to confront.

Dance Review: Ilya Vidrin’s “Proxies” — The Opposite of Avatar

July 4, 2026
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A sensor-driven dance work probes embodiment, data, and the limits of technological intimacy.

Book Review: “American Rambler” — The Myth of the Open Road

June 4, 2026
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Essayist and memoirist Isaac Fitzgerald follows Johnny Appleseed into a landscape shaped as much by omission and privilege as by history.

Dance Review: John Lam’s New Company Finds Its Footing

May 19, 2026
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Lam Dance Works pairs visiting virtuosity with emerging dancers, revealing both the promise and growing pains of a young Boston troupe.

Book Review: Poet Gregory Orr Looks Back Through the Static

May 18, 2026
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In this volume, Gregory Orr revisits a lifetime of poetic concerns with grace, though not always with urgency.

Book Review: Stop Romanticizing the Starving Artist

May 13, 2026
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“Making Art and Making a Living” assembles colorful tales of ingenuity while skirting the economic inequities that make them necessary.

Visual Arts Review: Rewriting the Machine — Raffaella della Olga’s Radical Typewriter Art

April 29, 2026
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Raffaella della Olga prepares manual typewriters the way John Cage prepared pianos, using their percussive power to completely subvert their original purpose.

Dance Review: Angkor Troupe’s “Swan Lake” — Trauma into Triumph

April 19, 2026
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Turn the lake into a lotus pond and you can take it from there.

Theater Review: “Suffs” Marches On — Without the Fire Its Story Deserves

March 19, 2026
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“Suffs” bounces through a timeline of conferences, direct actions, interpersonal snits, and self-questioning over whether the entire endeavor is really worth it.

Dance Feature: Finding Comedy in Motion — Sara Juli and Alexander Davis Share the Stage

March 17, 2026
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With autobiographical wryness on the menu, Sara Juli and Alexander David is a match made in performance art heaven.

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