Arts Fuse Editor
The national tour of the smash-hit revival retains much of the charm of the original.
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The Nightingale serves as both a powerful exploration of the past (from the perspective of the exploited) and a gripping vision of resilience in the face of unfathomable hate, greed, and cruelty.
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Chance’s The Big Day beautifully blends authentic passion with superior talent and special guests with star power.
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The Nightingale delivers an indelible vision of inhumanity perpetuated by colonialism and white privilege.
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This album lacks the desperation, the immediacy, the sheer power that made Sleater-Kinney essential in its original decade.
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In this extraordinary recording, harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani is given a chance to perfectly convey the power of his emotions.
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I left thinking that holding a blues (or a jazz) festival in every city and town would not be a bad idea. It’s a better way for municipalities to spend their money — with a surer payoff — than tax abatements for Amazon.
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feels both cautionary and elegiac; it is obviously relevant in these times of extremism and the rise of small town tyrannies.
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Gallim specializes in depicting raw emotions through movement.
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After the Wedding never finds its emotional rhythm; melodramatic confrontations about betrayals and past choices lurch clunkily along.
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