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Dance Preview: MOMIX — Not Your Average Dance Company

May 4, 2015
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MOMIX proffers something for everyone: acrobatics, dance, theatre, and delightful visual deception.

Theater Review: “The Grand Parade” — History as an Imaginative Pageant

May 3, 2015
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The Grand Parade is a truly sumptuous feast of imagination, color, emotion and movement; a uniquely dramatic way of interpreting our history as a torrent of events presented without judgment.

Dance Review: Boston Ballet’s “Edge of Vision” — Cascades

May 2, 2015
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The three choreographers used the streams of sound as an opportunity to provide floods of movement challenges to the terrific dancers of the company.

Film Interview: Director James D. Cooper on “Lambert & Stamp” — Creating The Who

May 2, 2015
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Lambert & Stamp will resonate with musicians who have experienced the volatile give-and-take that is needed to sustain and nurture a rock and roll band.

Theater Review: “The Whole World” — The Monsters Are Us

May 2, 2015
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The Whole World focuses on the incoherence that lurks underneath the empowering narratives we tell about ourselves.

Fuse Film Review: This Year’s Buenos Aires Festival of Independent Films — Unexpected Riches

May 1, 2015
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I’ve served on several dozen film juries about the globe in the last three decades. I can’t recall ever having a choice of so many splendid films from which to award a grand prize.

Film Review: “Slow West” : The Western Epic Redux — and Reduced

April 30, 2015
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Slow West bursts with visual interest, but doesn’t seem to be able to settle on what story it wants to tell.

Book Review: “Academy Street” — Affirming Life in Fresh and Surprising Ways

April 29, 2015
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This is a powerful, intensely felt short novel about the lives of ordinary people by a very young Irish writer.

Theater Review: Wham “(Betty) Bam” Thank You Mam

April 26, 2015
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Had Daniil Kharms’ texts been available at the high tide of the Theater of the Absurd, his plays would be performed alongside those of Samuel Beckett and Eugene Ionesco.

Visual Arts Review: Photographer Gordon Parks — Return to Fort Scott

April 25, 2015
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Back To Fort Scott, a compact, affecting exhibition of meticulously printed black and white photographs, is like a grainy, retro speed bump between the museum’s adjacent galleries.

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