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Concert Review: Kurt Elling with Anat Cohen at Sanders Theatre

May 18, 2015
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I’ve never seen Kurt Elling when he wasn’t in fine voice, and this show was no exception.

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Theater Review: “The Submission” — An Engaging Script that Falls Short of Its Ambitions

May 18, 2015
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At first, The Submission comes on as an agreeably edgy satire of the automatic embrace of identity politics and political correctness in the academy and popular culture.

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Theater Review: “Albatross” — A Return to Theater as Poetry

May 18, 2015
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Albatross is terrific — a powerful script, vital performance, and imaginative stage design.

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Film Review: “5 Flights Up” — Growing Old … the Hollywood Way

May 18, 2015
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How much longer can these seventy-somethings climb those stairs?

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Classical Music Commentary: On Andris Nelsons’ First Season in Boston and a Look Ahead at 2015-16

May 18, 2015
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By the end of Andris Nelsons’s inaugural season he had the BSO playing with lots of energy and like they really care, night in and out.

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Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

May 17, 2015
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, theater, music, dance, visual arts, and author events for the coming week.

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Fuse Opera Preview: Odyssey Opera Presents “The British Invasion”

May 17, 2015
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Taken together, it’s a bracing, provocative, and – perhaps above all – fun survey of music for the stage from, for England, the conspicuously abundant 20th century.

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Dance Review: Boston Ballet — Play With Music

May 17, 2015
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Two 20th century gems bracketed the evening, and all four works showed how the ballet idiom can serve and be served by classical music.

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Fuse Theater Review: “Mothers & Sons” — Surveying, With Understanding, the Battles Ahead

May 16, 2015
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Mothers & Sons raises important questions about struggle, acceptance, and love, dramatizing battles that are still being waged.

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Film Review: “Far from the Madding Crowd” — Made Sappy

May 15, 2015
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Why did this version of Far from the Madding Crowd have to be so straight-laced and traditional, so bland and dull?

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