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Theater Commentary: Star-Driven Plays Are Raking It in on Broadway — “Glengarry Glen Ross,” “Good Night, and Good Luck”

April 10, 2025
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Prices for Broadway tickets are out of control. But that’s not stopping people from buying them — provided they get to see the right Hollywood stars.

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Book Review: “On Frost and Eliot” — No Contest

April 10, 2025
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The value of “On Frost and Eliot” is sending the reader spinning out of its own text and back to poems by two of the major poets of the 20th century, each of whom has suffered from the vagaries of fashion, both in popularity and neglect.

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Opera Album Review: A Delightful Three-Character Opera by Paisiello Recieves Its World-Premiere Recording

April 10, 2025
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A renowned 18th-century master struts his stuff, helped by a skillful young Italian tenor, in an opera first performed in Russia.

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Television Review: “The Lady’s Companion” — Bring on the “Amor Prohibido”

April 9, 2025
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This Netflix series is a wittier, sassier, Spanish version of “Bridgerton”.

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Film Preview: “Planet at 50” — Unspooling Treasures from an Important Japanese Film Archive

April 9, 2025
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Planet’s holdings include nearly 20,000 film prints, as well as ephemera such as posters, scripts, and film magazines.

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Musician’s Interview: Barry Burns of Mogwai Talks About Stoking “The Bad Fire”

April 8, 2025
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Mogwai’s explosive sound has inspired numerous bands around the world, including in the Boston area. 

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Short Fuse Podcast #71: Reading the City with Tyler Wetherall

April 8, 2025
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In this conversation, Elizabeth Howard engages with Tyler Wetherall, focusing on how she connects with the literary community in New York City through her newsletter, “Reading the City.”

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Book Review: “The Prison Industry” — Proving That a Humane Prison Is a Perverse Fallacy

April 8, 2025
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Some of “The Prison Industry”‘s most devastating material appears in the section of the book exposing the lack of acceptable health care in jails and prisons.

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Concert Review: Beth Gibbons — Still an Aching, Spectral Voice

April 7, 2025
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Stripped of trip-hop trappings, Beth Gibbons’s fragile voice commanded through a ghostly filter effect as she sang with edgy emotion, peaking in the tagline, “How can it feel this wrong?”

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Visual Arts Review: “Leonora Carrington: Dream Weaver” — Surrealist Sorcery

April 7, 2025
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Reluctant to explain the meaning of her art, Leonora Carrington chose to let the magic and mystery of her inner life reveal itself through the imaginary animal/human creatures and fantastic landscapes of her paintings.

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