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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.

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.”

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.

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.

Opera Review: A Sumptuous New Recording of Korngold’s “The Miracle of Heliane,” Centerpiece of This Summer’s Bard Music Festival

May 1, 2019
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Once much-performed, then banished from the stage by the Nazis, The Miracle of Heliane, now available in a fine new recording, is perhaps the best opera by the man who would become one of Hollywood’s leading composers.

Television Commentary: Martin v. Tolkien

April 30, 2019
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Is it all, from here on out, to be about Daenerys v. John Snow for the Iron Throne?

Book Review: John Hersey — Reporting Truthfully, at All Costs

April 29, 2019
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John Hersey emerges in this book as a disciplined journalist who held steadfast to an admirably singular goal.

Concert Music Review: The Boston Philharmonic plays Ives and Mahler

April 28, 2019
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This performance of Ives’ Third was the most welcome entry in the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra’s celebratory season – a beautifully considered, powerfully rendered account of this too-neglected score.

Book Review: “Necropolis” — A Book of the Russian Literary Dead

April 28, 2019
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This memoir offers an invaluable, broad look at intellectual Russia before and after the revolutions of 1917.

Theater Review: “Beetlejuice” Bombards Broadway

April 27, 2019
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Beetlejuice may not be the blockbuster its creators are hoping for, but it is occasionally humorous and rarely dull.

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