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Film Feature: STREAMING DOCS — Spring 2019

March 16, 2019
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What are the best new documentaries available on digital platforms? Read on.

Theater Review: “An Inspector Calls” — Upper Class Downfall

March 16, 2019
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J. B. Priestly’s shallow characterizations keep his vision of moneyed skullduggery mundane rather than monstrous.

Film Review: “Transit” — Europe’s Unburied Past

March 15, 2019
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In Transit, Christian Petzold explores why the ghosts of Europe’s troubled past are stirring once more.

Visual Arts Review: “Tolkien: Maker of Middle-Earth” — Treasures of an Imaginary World

March 15, 2019
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This is the most extensive public display of original J.R.R. Tolkien material for several generations.

Theater Review: HTC’s “Romeo and Juliet” — A Seamless Marriage between Old and New

March 15, 2019
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The HTC’s Romeo and Juliet may be dressed in modern trappings, but the play’s elemental heart and soul are left fully intact.

Film Review: “To Sleep With Anger” — The Devil’s Temptations

March 15, 2019
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To Sleep with Anger is a masterpiece, a powerful reminder that, however seductive the devil might be, he can be overcome.

Classical Concert Review: Boston Musica Viva plays Hoffer, Smith, and Greene

March 14, 2019
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Richard Pittman led the core players of BMV in a confident, evocative reading of the music.

Opera Review: Boston Lyric Opera’s “The Rape of Lucretia” — Bravi Tutti

March 14, 2019
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The Boston Lyric Opera is mounting a fabulous staging of Benjamin Britten’s visceral opera.

Arts Appreciation: Hal Blaine — The Beat Goes On

March 14, 2019
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Hal Blaine contributed so much to such a large number of rock and pop’s greatest hits, that his music will continue to be heard and appreciated for as long as there are radios.

Jazz Appreciation and Preview: James Carter — Life Begins at Fifty

March 13, 2019
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Whom can we thank at the Boston Symphony Orchestra for choosing James Carter to be the featured saxophone soloist in March 23’s concert at Symphony Hall?

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