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Visual Arts Feature: Rembrandt, Rubens, the Beau Sancy, and the Jew

May 22, 2012
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The history of the Beau Sancy took me back to the years around 1640, when it passed into and out of the orbit of the greatest Netherlandish artists of the day, the Dutchman Rembrandt and the Brabander Rubens.

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Concert Review: Boston Modern Orchestra Project/Gil Rose at Jordan Hall

May 21, 2012
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Ultimately, there’s a “look at my technique” quality to composer Lewis Spratlan’s writing in this piece that doesn’t match the musical content and that seems to be striving to be all things to all listeners.

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Theater Review: “Xanadu” — Let the Campy Times Roll

May 21, 2012
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The SpeakEasy Stage Company’s Xanadu is a joyful, fun piece of light summer entertainment, beautifully executed by the cast and crew, that celebrates sublime schlock in surprisingly hilarious and creative ways.

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Fuse Feature: Writer Carlos Fuentes — A Personal Remembrance

May 20, 2012
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As sorry as I was to lose Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes last week, I was nonetheless deeply pleased that he reached the age of 83. I almost killed him when he was 37.

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Book Review: The “Three Lives” of Stefan Zweig

May 19, 2012
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Stefan Zweig’s was a dramatic, action-packed, intense epic of a life, but Oliver Matuschek’s biography, Three Lives, simply plods along.

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Theater Impressions: Cirque du Soleil’s “Amaluna” — Diane Paulus Turns “The Tempest” Into a Circus

May 19, 2012
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A.R.T artistic director Diane Paulus, entrepreneur extraordinaire, seems to have plucked impulse for character and meandering plot from a watered (down) idea of The Tempest.

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Theater Review: “Ten Blocks on the Camino Real” — A Tennessee Williams Dreamscape

May 18, 2012
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Beau Jest Moving Theatre has returned to the early, one-act version of Williams’ script, and created a sometimes pleasant, sometimes nightmarish dreamscape.

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Dance Review: Mark Morris Redux

May 18, 2012
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Mark Morris, no longer dancing, joined his company for the curtain call. He’s beloved here, a part of the contemporary dance scene in Boston over the decades as a performer, a choreographer for the Boston Ballet, a teacher, and an inspiration to a number of local performers.

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Theater Review: The Hilarious Horror of “Little Shop of Horrors”

May 17, 2012
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This family’s twelve-year-old daughter found Little Shop of Horrors to be funny, silly, and wholly enjoyable, further cementing her desire to be onstage as much and as often as possible in the future.

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Book Interview: Damion Searls on “Amsterdam Stories”

May 17, 2012
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Written by a man who spent most of his life in a bourgeois harness, Amsterdam Stories focuses on the fleeting thrills of refusal, the chemical and philosphical rush that comes from floating free of responsibility.

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