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Theater Review: “Tiny Beautiful Things” — A Little Anonymity Can Bring Us Closer Together

September 30, 2019
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At its best, Tiny Beautiful Things delves deep into demanding emotional territory without becoming sappy or maudlin.

Theater Review: ArtsEmerson Presents the Exhilarating “Passengers”

September 28, 2019
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The latest show from circus troupe The 7 Fingers is both intimate and gasp-inducing.

Theater Review: David Byrne’s Wondrous “American Utopia”

September 27, 2019
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David Byrne and the band has clearly made a home out of the Emerson Colonial, working out tweaks in what has evolved into an extremely tight, invigorating show.

Film Review: “Judy” — Far More Than Just Another Hollywood Tragedy

September 27, 2019
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As Judy Garland, Renée Zellweger is in a movie that doesn’t match her fine performance.

Book Review: “The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee” — Dreaming a New Dream for Native Americans

September 27, 2019
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In this remarkable and timely book, David Treuer is determined that Native American history not be seen as a “catalog of pain.”

Opera Album Review: Offenbach’s “La Périchole,” by an All-French Cast, Combines Zest and Elegance

September 26, 2019
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This is one of the zippiest, most life-affirming opera recordings I have heard in a long time. Well, this puts it a bit too blandly, because the work’s social satire also targets the smug self-satisfaction and careless cruelty of the powerful.

Concert Review: Koyaanisqatsi Live! — Apocalypse Then … and Now

September 25, 2019
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modern world out of control is more perceptive and chilling than ever.

Theater Review: “Time Stands Still” — After Trauma

September 25, 2019
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In this seemingly modest, but beautifully constructed and deeply moving play, Donald Margulies has tackled some of the thorniest questions of our time.

Film Review: “Downton Abbey” — Revisiting Past Glory

September 24, 2019
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Why has Downton Abbey, the film and the series, been so successful? We are given a romanticized vision of essential ‘Britishness,’ a nostalgic version of the class system.

Book Review: “Animalia” — ‘Taint a Fit World for Man or Beast

September 24, 2019
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Jean-Baptiste Del Amo has written a marvelous novel in the naturalistic mode that explores how the lives of humans and animals are both interdependent and in conflict — it is not for the faint of heart or weak of stomach.

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