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Opera Review: Galuppi’s “L’amante di tutte” — A Total Hoot!

November 26, 2020
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A delightful and compact opera — from a generation before Mozart — that cuts various social types down to size.

Film Review: “His House” — The Intimate Horror of Trauma

November 25, 2020
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This is not your typical horror film; it thoughtfully explores how houses and people can both be haunted.

Television Interview: Talking with John Wilson, the Mastermind behind HBO’s “How to with John Wilson”

November 25, 2020
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“I don’t want to show myself because I don’t think I’m very interesting to look at. The world is filled with so many other interesting things to look at.”

Rock and Book Review: New Visions of Metal, Heavy, Black, and Thrash

November 25, 2020
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“I think these shots bring out the fierceness of black metal, and the models are saying, ‘We can be this.’”

Television Review: “Animaniacs” Reboot — Out of Step

November 24, 2020
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The new Animaniacs provides no good reason for reviving Yakko, Wakko, and Dot in the 21st century.

Book Review: “Sittin’ In” — Remembrance of Jazz Clubs Past

November 24, 2020
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Sittin’ in raises fascinating issues and its wealth of ephemera provides an amusing context in which to ponder deeper questions.

Book Review: “Nobody Ever Asked Me About the Girls” — A Disappointing Look at Women, Music, and Fame

November 23, 2020
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Journalist Lisa Robinson deconstructed the idea of the girl who could hang with the guys (and laugh off their casual misogyny) long before Gillian Flynn immortalized the Cool Girl in Gone Girl.

Theater Review: “The Tattooed Man Tells All” — Memories of a Survivor

November 22, 2020
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Peter Wortsman has made a valuable contribution with this play; it is a rare theatrical account about how living through the Holocaust shaped survivors.

Theater Review: A Raucous Zoomified “Much Ado” — “Thou Art Muted, Don Pedro”

November 21, 2020
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Hub Theatre’s virtual production of Much Ado About Nothing recognizes Zoom’s potential for farce and leans into it: this is a rollicking delight of a show that refuses to take itself seriously, to everyone’s benefit.

Theater Review: “On Beckett / In Screen” — Bill Irwin Honors Samuel Beckett

November 19, 2020
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Bill Irwin’s homage to Samuel Beckett explores what makes the writer so fascinating, even inspiring, for those who appreciate the knockabout beauty of his despair.

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