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Theater Review: “The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane” — Rabbit Transit

December 11, 2018
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The company’s staging is dynamic and vivacious, and the unconventional seating arrangements give audience members the chance to place themselves in the center of the action.

Classical CD Review: Best Opera Recording of the Year — Or is it Best Musical?

December 11, 2018
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None of the opera recordings I have reviewed this past year beats this Cradle for dramatic vitality, musical imagination, and ongoing political relevance.

Theater Review: “Breath & Imagination” — An Indomitable Voice

December 11, 2018
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The success or failure of this show rests primarily on the physical presence, voice and acting of the actor playing the celebrated lyric tenor Roland Hayes.

Theater Review: “Man in the Ring” — A Precipitous Fall

December 10, 2018
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Acclaimed playwright and screenwriter Michael Cristofer’s script is very open about portraying Emile Griffith’s sexuality.

Film Review: “Divide & Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes” — Media Mogul, Serial Sociopath

December 9, 2018
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This blistering new documentary manages to offer a fairly balanced portrait of a man who, at the end of his life, was widely demonized.

Film Review: “Shoplifters” — Family Life in the Lower Depths

December 8, 2018
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Shoplifters is a masterpiece about the underclass that effortlessly explores emotional complexity amid moral contradictions.

Theater Review: “Gloria” — A Drama About Journalistic Hell

December 7, 2018
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The vacuousness of the digital world and the mainstream media is an easy target.

Jazz Concert Preview: 41st John Coltrane Memorial Concert to Feature Some “Favorite Things”

December 7, 2018
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“Now I’m retired, but I still look forward to honoring the legacy of John Coltrane.”

Film Review: A Compelling Look at Dieter Rams, Industrial Design Icon at 86

December 6, 2018
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Rams is a documentary film carefully crafted to be more than a biography of a great designer.

Jazz CD Review: Fred Hersch Trio ’97 @ The Village Vanguard

December 5, 2018
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With two able bandmates, Fred Hersch is inspired to unwind a nice set of standards and a few originals.

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