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Film Review: “The White Crow” — God’s Acrobat

May 8, 2019
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The White Crow, wisely, offers up no easy answers regarding why Rudolf Nureyev defected.

TV Review: “Barry” Season Two — All Bets Are Off

May 6, 2019
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HBO’S Barry has finally started to hit its stride as a mirthfully dark comedy/drama.

Theater Review: “School Girls” — Teaching Lessons

May 6, 2019
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School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play is a serious comedy that takes aim at our provinciality and ignorance.

Film Review: “Bolden” — Putting Flesh on a Jazz Myth

May 5, 2019
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Bolden is an intense film, depicting a life lived in a horrifically racist time and place.

Coming Attractions: May 5 through 21 — What Will Light Your Fire

May 5, 2019
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.

Theater Review: “Caroline, or Change” — In Purgatory, All Souls Are Tested

May 4, 2019
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This evening is a revelatory experience on race relations, with grief, rage, and the whole business of hope and change.

Visual Arts Review: Two Fabulous Female Painters — Isabel Bishop and Emily Mae Smith

May 3, 2019
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These exhibitions present two very different ways of engaging with gender, both raising the question of gaze.

Theater Review: “Ink” Leaves Its Stain on Broadway

May 2, 2019
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James Graham’s new play almost evokes sympathy for the devil. Almost.

Book Review: The Lives They Wrote

May 2, 2019
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Two autobiographies by women who had some experience in legitimate theater, but they each gave their strongest allegiance to dance, specifically one choreographer.

Opera Review: A Sumptuous New Recording of Korngold’s “The Miracle of Heliane,” Centerpiece of This Summer’s Bard Music Festival

May 1, 2019
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Once much-performed, then banished from the stage by the Nazis, The Miracle of Heliane, now available in a fine new recording, is perhaps the best opera by the man who would become one of Hollywood’s leading composers.

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