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Theater Review: Wheelock Family Theatre’s “Annie” Radiates Hope but Misses an Opportunity

November 25, 2025
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Conveying the value of hope and resilience are undoubtedly important, but positing social and civic responsibility is also essential, and “Annie” clearly offers that opportunity.

Concert Review: Joshua Bell, Anna Handler, and the BSO Confront de Hartmann’s Haunted Ukrainian Concerto

November 25, 2025
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The destruction and displacement of people today so recall the past that Thomas de Hartmann’s music resounds with fierce, resonant force.

Book Review: Lea Ypi’s “Indignity” — Reimagining a Life in the Ruins of History

November 24, 2025
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This tragic, absorbing, and moving quasi-novel is best characterized as a “tour de force”.

Film Review: “Hamnet” — Not to Be

November 24, 2025
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In Chloé Zhao’s “Hamnet,” the Bard is a bore.

Film Review: Low-Budget Films Were Alive and Well at The Year’s New York Film Festival

November 23, 2025
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Three independent films got a bounce out of the New York Film Festival and could be coming to you soon.

Concert Review: The Wailin’ Jennys — In Perfect Harmony at Groton Hill Music Center

November 22, 2025
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If ever there was a musical act and a venue perfectly suited to each other, it would have to be the Wailin’ Jennys, the harmony-laden Canadian folk trio, and the Groton Hill Music Center.

Book Review: Jan Kerouac’s “Baby Driver” — Storming Down the Road

November 22, 2025
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“Baby Driver” is a book in the tradition of American road literature, but it moves at a distinctly different pace.

Dance Review: Doug Varone and Dancers — Beauty and Resilience for These Dark Times

November 22, 2025
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Varone and dancers made skillful use of some of the most luxurious movement vocabulary available in contemporary dance

Book Review: “Crimean Fig” — Everything Has Its Own Soul

November 21, 2025
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The authors assembled in “Crimean Fig” demonstrate they are unafraid to speak up for Tatar language and culture, while simultaneously speaking out against Putin, unwilling to submit.

Film Review: “Peter Hujar’s Day” — Carpe Diem

November 21, 2025
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Knowing that artist Peter Hujar died of AIDS in 1987—one of countless casualties of a devastating epidemic that cut short so many artists’ lives—gives the film a sad, mortal urgency.

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