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Visual Arts Review: Unexpectedly Full — MASS MoCA’s “The Man in the Empty Space”

August 10, 2016
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It took some time, but the stunning synergy of Richard Nonas’ work began to reveal itself.

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Stage Review: “Songs for a New World” — In the Key of Passion

August 9, 2016
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Summer theater musicals often accentuate the frivolous, but the GSC production of Songs for a New World demands more.

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Jazz Preview: The Rockport Jazz Festival (and Summer Gala) — Dedicated to Building an Audience for Jazz

August 8, 2016
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Shalin Liu Becomes a Jazz Destination: Wynton Marsalis Headlines the Rockport Music Summer Gala fundraiser.

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Book Review: “Smedley’s Secret Guide to Literature” — Teenage Lit-Land

August 8, 2016
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This savvy, witty, and casually erudite novella proves that when it comes portraying adolescence in fiction the less sentimentality the better.

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Dance Review: Compagnie Hervé KOUBI — Multiculturalism, Inspired

August 6, 2016
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This acrobatic physicality doesn’t come off as a test of testosterone or showboating.

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Dance Review: Boston Ballet II’s Pocket Survey

August 5, 2016
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The Boston Ballet II program was a miniature survey of classical ballet history, a perfect challenge for apprentice dancers.

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Author Appreciation: The Fiction of Kent Haruf — Surviving Ordinary Life with Grace

August 5, 2016
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Kent Haruf’s novels remind us that even in the hardest lives, there is joy, often delicate and evanescent, but joy, nevertheless.

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Fuse Film Review: A Furiously Effective “Indignation”

August 4, 2016
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Films like Indignation bypass body counts and superheroes in order to explore the mysteries and eccentricities of human behavior.

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Theater Review: A Fresh Take on GBS’s “Pygmalion”

August 4, 2016
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The staging is a brash translation of Shaw’s early twentieth-century delicacy into twenty-first century Yankee sensibilities.

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Jazz Concert Review: An Improvised Saturday at the 2016 Newport Jazz Festival

August 3, 2016
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This year I resolved to do an unapologetic fan experience at Newport Jazz.

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