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Theater Review: Another View of “Indecent” — Flat and Obvious

May 5, 2019
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In the case of a scene set in the Lodz Ghetto, the lineup of characters on the way to the concentration camps veered, for me, close to Holocaust porn.

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Theater Review: “Caroline, or Change” — In Purgatory, All Souls Are Tested

May 4, 2019
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This evening is a revelatory experience on race relations, with grief, rage, and the whole business of hope and change.

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Classical Music Reviews: The Boston Symphony’s 2018-19 Season-closing Concerts

May 4, 2019
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The final two concerts of the BSO’s season were in the orchestra’s sweet spot.

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Theater Review: “Indecent” — A Dangerous World for People of Faith

May 4, 2019
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Indecent is a play of contrasts: piety versus blasphemy, joy versus heartbreak.

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Music Review: The de-Stones’d New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival 50th Anniversary

May 3, 2019
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“Forgiveness is the key and love is the answer… Have a good Jazz Fest, but also have a good life.”

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Visual Arts Review: Two Fabulous Female Painters — Isabel Bishop and Emily Mae Smith

May 3, 2019
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These exhibitions present two very different ways of engaging with gender, both raising the question of gaze.

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Theater Review: “Ink” Leaves Its Stain on Broadway

May 2, 2019
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James Graham’s new play almost evokes sympathy for the devil. Almost.

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Book Review: The Lives They Wrote

May 2, 2019
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Two autobiographies by women who had some experience in legitimate theater, but they each gave their strongest allegiance to dance, specifically one choreographer.

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Opera Review: A Sumptuous New Recording of Korngold’s “The Miracle of Heliane,” Centerpiece of This Summer’s Bard Music Festival

May 1, 2019
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Once much-performed, then banished from the stage by the Nazis, The Miracle of Heliane, now available in a fine new recording, is perhaps the best opera by the man who would become one of Hollywood’s leading composers.

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Television Commentary: Martin v. Tolkien

April 30, 2019
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Is it all, from here on out, to be about Daenerys v. John Snow for the Iron Throne?

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