Review
The documentary sees The Family as really just a huge, secretive, and well-funded lobbying firm: separating church and state is for losers.
At its best, Tiny Beautiful Things delves deep into demanding emotional territory without becoming sappy or maudlin.
The latest show from circus troupe The 7 Fingers is both intimate and gasp-inducing.
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.
As Judy Garland, Renée Zellweger is in a movie that doesn’t match her fine performance.
In this remarkable and timely book, David Treuer is determined that Native American history not be seen as a “catalog of pain.”
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.
modern world out of control is more perceptive and chilling than ever.
In this seemingly modest, but beautifully constructed and deeply moving play, Donald Margulies has tackled some of the thorniest questions of our time.
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.
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