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Classical Music Commentary: Kapellmeister Nelsons

September 10, 2015
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We’ll have to wait and see how Andris Nelsons balances things out. But there’s no reason to suspect that Boston’s getting the short end of the stick here.

Theater Review: From Page to Stage — Shakespeare’s “The Rape of Lucrece”

September 10, 2015
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Dan Hodge turns two hundred and fifty stanzas of Shakespeare’s rhyme royal into the stuff of a high-class poetry slam.

Stage Interview: Robert Scanlan on Samuel Beckett’s Women

September 9, 2015
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“When we turn so crass and commercial that we have lost our way, Samuel Beckett will be rediscovered as the way back.”

Theater Review: A ‘Loverly’ “My Fair Lady” From the Lyric Stage

September 7, 2015
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Simplicity is the key to director Scott Edmiston’s passionate vision for this musical.

Fuse Theater Review: “Informed Consent” — Science, Ethics, and Racing Against the Clock

September 5, 2015
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Playwright Deborah Zoe Laufer has done a marvelous job of blending weighty ideas into a very human context.

Theater Review: A.R. Gurney’s “Love and Money” — Aging White Bread Blues

September 3, 2015
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Love and Money is a short play, lengthened beyond one-act duration by stuffing a Cole Porter interlude into its middle.’

World Music CD Review: Globetrotting Musician Stephan Micus — “Smartly Sublime”

September 3, 2015
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Claims that Stephan Micus erases international boundaries and makes one-world music get it backward. You visit his world on his records.

Critical Blast From the Past: Hack! Thump! Rustle! Ah-choo!

September 2, 2015
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Here is a random roster of playgoing pests, may Thespis strike each of them dumb.

Dance Commentary: Is Dance Criticism Dead?

September 1, 2015
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Neither dancers nor the dance audience are out on the barricades demanding more and better dance coverage.

Book Review: An Exhilarating Poetry Trek Through Europe

August 31, 2015
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John Taylor introduces readers to an amazing array of sensibilities and life histories in a babel of languages from an atlas of nations.

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