Review
Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
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Are visitors supposed to feel some sort of guilty pleasure if they find Mary Ann Unger’s Across the Bering Strait powerfully mesmeric?
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Guitarist Eddie Condon quotes a mobster on jazz: “…it’s got guts and it don’t make you slobber.”
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I was pleased to encounter all three compact operas. Lennox Berkeley seems to me more and more an admirable, indeed lovable composer, and a bit of a chameleon. I like him in all his various colors.
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To some degree, everything fit under the resilient umbrella that the late George Wein raised at the edge of Newport Harbor.
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Grand Horizons at the Gloucester Stage Company is a wild, funny, and sometimes wonderfully touching ride.
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Nope, Jordan Peele’s highly anticipated third feature, is an awe-inspiring marvel about our own unrelenting obsession with spectacle.
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The Stone Age is only about the gossip, to the point where even when something (potentially) true comes along, it still reads like trash.
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Rodin in the United States: Confronting the Modern is the show of the summer in the Berkshires — remarkably extensive, with 25 works on paper and 50 sculptures in terra cotta, plaster, marble, and bronze.
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Earwig taps into a diabolical Freudian cabinet of uncanny curiosities and symbols.
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