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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.

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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.

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Theater Review: Another View of “Indecent” — Flat and Obvious

May 5, 2019
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In the case of a scene set in the Lodz Ghetto, the lineup of characters on the way to the concentration camps veered, for me, close to Holocaust porn.

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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.

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Music Preview: Soul Man Cometh — Nick Waterhouse

May 5, 2019
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The music Nick Waterhouse performs (almost all of which he writes) is consistently retro—not to mention relentlessly danceable and fun.

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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.

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Theater Review: “Indecent” — A Dangerous World for People of Faith

May 4, 2019
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Indecent is a play of contrasts: piety versus blasphemy, joy versus heartbreak.

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Music Review: The de-Stones’d New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival 50th Anniversary

May 3, 2019
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“Forgiveness is the key and love is the answer… Have a good Jazz Fest, but also have a good life.”

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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.

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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.

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