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Even taking into consideration my several objections, this Faust is one of the most accomplished and intriguing opera releases of recent years.
There are few films these days that feel like such a familiar and sorely-needed balm for stressful times.
Colorful, characterful, and full of worldly wisdom, The Last Sorcerer—by a skilled and imaginative composer, to a text by the great Russian novelist— receives a superb world-premiere recording, with Met mezzo Jamie Barton and bass-baritone Eric Owens.
Tony Kushner attempts a re-write of his first professional play. The results are decidedly mixed.
The Tedeschi Trucks Band is capping another remarkable year of transition and growth, some of it spurred by tragedy.
Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.
Ken Ludwig’s stage version of Murder on the Orient Express is an enjoyable diversion.
Terry Tempest Williams thinks that we must seize opportunities to save an increasingly endangered world — we don’t have a choice to feel powerless against the forces that seek to exploit and destroy the beauty of life on this planet.
Octavio Solis’ Quixote Nuevo, is a genial, and very American, riff on Don Quixote.
Critical Commentary: A Few Thoughts about John Simon
Few critics proclaimed that the emperor was naked as a jaybird with as much savvy panache.
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