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Theater Review: “Our Class” — A Powerful Visual History Lesson

June 18, 2025
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The strongest element in this Arlekin production is the indelible stage images of loss and love, death and despair, memory and resilience, dreamed up by director Igor Golyak and his talented production team.

Concert Review: Boston Camerata’s “Gallery of Kings” — Uses and Abuses of Power, ca. 1300

June 17, 2025
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Through story, song, missives, and popular gibes at authority, the Boston Camerata program looked at kings remembered for their great deeds and those commemorated for their bumbling idiocy.

Film Reviews: This Year’s Provincetown Film Festival — Exploding with Queer-Subject Features and Documentaries

June 17, 2025
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This year was the 27th annual festival, and blessed as always by the fairy-dust magical presence of summertime resident John Waters.

Film Review: “Lavender Men” — A Spotlight on Gaybraham Lincoln

June 17, 2025
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Considering the determination of the current administration to send America back to the 19th century (or even earlier, perhaps to the Dark Ages), “Lavender Men” supplies an entertaining — and valuable — history lesson.

Film Review: Dialectical “Materialists”

June 16, 2025
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Director Celine Song beats the romantic comedy to death.

Concert Review: Sam Grisman Project and Peter Rowan — Seizing the Moment

June 15, 2025
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There were unscripted song selections whose daring and heart made this concert so much more than a night of old beloved tunes.

Dance Review: Boston Dance Theater — Inspired by Nature

June 13, 2025
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Boston Dance Theater is driven by the belief that a community is strengthened by an exchange of ideas.

Visual Arts Review: Great Gallery Shows for Free in NYC – Picasso and Kentridge

June 13, 2025
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Two art exhibitions in New York should be seen multiple times. Each will deepen your appreciation of a great artist. Neither is mobbed with visitors. Each, in this wildly overpriced city, is absolutely free.

Theater Reviews: Berkshires Roundup — In Touch With Reality

June 13, 2025
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A trio of companies — Barrington Stage Company, Great Barrington Public Theater, and, to a lesser extent, Berkshire Theater Festival — draw on the stage’s power to address our current political emergencies.

Doc Talk: Fame and Obscurity at PIFF

June 12, 2025
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If the destiny of documentaries is to become celebrity profiles, it could do worse than those screening at this year’s PIFF.

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