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Theater Review: “Midwinter Revels” — Unity, “Behold How Good”

December 20, 2022
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At its core, the Revels is about bringing together actors and audience, but there are several stagecraft successes to note this time around

Book Review: “Isabella Stewart Gardner: A Life” — Less Intriguing But Even More Mysterious

December 19, 2022
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As befits an official biography, Silver and Greenwald approach their subject with decorum and respect: they neither hide nor emphasize potentially controversial elements, carefully outlining the sources of money in Isabella’s family and the old Boston Brahmin fortune of her devoted husband.

Book Review: “The Value of a Whale” — Green Capitalism and the Limits of Market-Based Solutions

December 18, 2022
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In this valuable book, Adrienne Buller assesses the efficacy of leading market-based efforts to address climate change and nature loss and contends that they have largely failed.

Film Review: “White Noise” — Toxic Prophecy

December 18, 2022
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By drawing on the insight and humor in Don DeLillo’s novel, Noah Baumbach manages to find (at least for me) affirmation and comfort in this portrait of the randomness of contemporary existence.

Theater Review: “Life of Pi” — An Enchantingly Theatrical Ocean Voyage

December 17, 2022
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This stunning, brand new production of UK’s Life of Pi is stopping in Cambridge for a month or so before sailing down to Broadway.

Arts Commentary: It’s Not Funny — “Saturday Night Live” and the Mark Twain Prize

December 16, 2022
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Adam Sandler receiving a Mark Twain Prize is one more SNL achievement that defies understanding.

Concert Review: A Handel and Haydn Christmas — A Rousing Baroque Fire

December 16, 2022
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If Handel and Haydn Society’s annual Baroque Christmas program had one takeaway, it was that its new music director, Jonathan Cohen, is a superb fit for the job.

Television Review: “Kindred” — More than a Mystery

December 16, 2022
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In this adaptation for Hulu, Octavia E. Butler’s hybrid sci-fi novel has been reduced to a misguided time travel mystery.

Album Review: Roger C. Miller’s “Eight Dream Interpretations for Solo Electric Guitar Ensemble” — Fancy’s Furies

December 14, 2022
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As fluid and experimental as Eight Dream Interpretations is, the album’s rambunctious sonic palette is nothing if not inviting.

WATCH CLOSELY: “1899” — A Sumptuous Terror

December 14, 2022
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1899‘s excellent design work makes this series an opulent and memorable visual odyssey.

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