Review

Theater Review: “1776” — Retrograde History Lesson

December 20, 2018
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While the push for diversity in casting is admirable, it’s not enough to resuscitate a script that feels dated, even regressive in its approach to historical storytelling.

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Book Review: “The Barefoot Woman” — A Survivor’s Eulogy

December 19, 2018
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The Barefoot Woman is lyrical but also informative and ethnographic, as much a memoir of a mother as it is of her way of life.

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Visual Arts Review: “Armenia!” — Art, Religion, and Trade at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

December 18, 2018
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Armenian cultural history has always been about survival: between Armenians preserving their art within the shifting boundaries of their homeland, and carrying their art beyond the country’s borders.

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Jazz CD Review: The Gil Evans Orchestra — Hidden Treasures, Vol #1

December 18, 2018
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Quite properly, Miles Evans evokes rather than mimics his dad’s arrangements on this excellent disc.

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Theater Review: The Christmas Revels — A Wonderful Nordic Celebration

December 18, 2018
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This year’s version – the 48th! – of The Christmas Revels is delightful and refreshing way to bid adieu to a tumultuous 2018.

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Dance Review: Twyla Tharp’s Boston Show

December 17, 2018
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Dressed in cream-colored pants, a crisp white shirt, sneakers, and big owlish spectacles with red plastic frames, Twyla Tharp played the professor in the first part of the 90-minute show.

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Concert Review: Soca and Calypso Fans go “Crazy” for Parang

December 17, 2018
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Septuagenarian, Edwin Ayoung, better known as Crazy, easily carried the rest of the night with his exuberant performance.

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Book Review: “In the Galway Silence” — Another Tour of Hell

December 15, 2018
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Jack Taylor’s world is very much our world and his despair is our despair.

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Film Review: “Ben is Back” — Raising an Addict

December 15, 2018
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Films like Ben is Back will not foster an understanding of how drug addiction ravages the lives of the poor, the incarcerated, the uneducated, and the less fortunate.

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Visual Arts Review: Surrealism — One of America’s Favorite Art “isms”

December 15, 2018
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Despite its serious treatment of surreal art, Monsters & Myths is a real delight.

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