Review

Theater Review: “Vanya” — One Actor, a House Divided

October 22, 2026
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Mark H. Dold brings force and sensitivity to Barrington Stage Company’s compelling, uneven production, but the solo format undercuts Chekhov’s psychological complexity.

Book Review: Behind the Postcard Jamaica, Marlon James Finds a Brutal Reckoning

October 22, 2026
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Sprawling, sexually frank, and often harrowing, “The Disappearers” turns the enforced secrecy of gay life in Jamaica into richly layered fiction.

Book Review: A Color That Won’t Stay Neutral

October 22, 2026
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In “A Dead White,” Wendy S. Walters blends memoir and cultural history to question the ubiquity—and presumed innocence—of white paint.

Music Review: Sugar Returns to Boston — Still Sweet, Fierce, and Potent

October 20, 2026
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Reunited after 30 years, Bob Mould, David Barbe, and Malcolm Travis deliver a triumphant Roadrunner set that balances melodic hooks with cathartic fury.

Watch Closely: Spooky Season Streaming

October 19, 2026
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From haunted islands to Gilead and outer space, four series keep the scary season alive.

Theater Review: “Songs from Bark of Millions” — Too Much, and Still Not Enough

October 19, 2026
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Taylor Mac and Matt Ray’s bawdy, bighearted romp raised the Paramount’s roof, but its sprawling celebration of queer history cries out for a firmer editorial hand.

Classical Music Album: Pieter Wispelwey Captures Benjamin Britten’s Fierce Beauty

October 19, 2026
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On his third recording of Benjamin Britten’s three solo cello suites, the Dutch cellist brings lucid intensity to their knotty arguments and haunting lyricism.

Album/Concert Preview: Marshall Crenshaw — Beyond the Hits, Into the Archives

October 19, 2026
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A new collection of unreleased demos, live performances, and studio recordings puts Crenshaw’s enduring pop gifts in the spotlight ahead of his November 11 appearance at Boston’s City Winery.

Visual Arts Review: At the Goethe-Institut, a Landscape Bears Witness

October 18, 2026
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In her haunting installation “Cemetery of the Nameless,” Pınar Öğrenci contemplates displacement, anonymous deaths, and the cruelties that recur across borders and centuries.

Film Reviews: Escaping Putin’s Russia, Serving Vichy France — Three Films at the New York Film Festival

October 18, 2026
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Julia Loktev’s six-hour portrait of exiled TV Rain journalists headlined a festival program along with a tale set in Andrey Zvyagintsev’s corrupt provincial Russia and Emmanuel Marre’s understated study of collaboration under Nazi occupation.

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