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I love Saturday Night Live as much as the next guy, but Kids In The Hall did much more with much less than Lorne Michael’s comedy fiefdom.
Read MoreThe challenging viola part takes prominence in Shostakovich’s String Quartet no. 13, highlighting an essential yet oft-unsung voice of a string quartet.
Read MoreLydia R. Diamond’s Smart People is an amusing takedown of our “post-racial” world, and it is receiving a snappy, well-acted production via the Huntington Theatre Company.
Read MoreI was mesmerized by the evocative stage pictures and the straight-at-the-audience, presentational mode of the actors, whose facial expressions and gestures so viscerally conveyed the emotional lives of the characters.
Read MoreA Sentimental Novel, which seems to be at once pornography and a parody of pornography, is designed to provoke both revulsion and titillation.
Read MoreArts Fuse critics select the best in music, film, theater, visual arts, author readings, and dance that’s coming up in the next week.
Read MoreWe do it for the joy and communitas of making theater together much as we do for responding to the world around us through art.
Read MoreOne of the most remarkable features of Cosmos — and possibly its greatest public service — has been its matter-of-fact, understated championing of the scientific method.
Read MoreThere have been three pop LPs this year that I’ve really been digging: they are gloriously wacky.
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Arts Commentary: The “Maleficent” Syndrome — Making the Villain the Hero
Perhaps because real life is so painful, so tragic, we cannot bear to see evil in full flight. Evil must be relative, it must fly on wings of rationale, on a broomstick of retribution.
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