Review

Theater Review: “Madame Defarge” — Epic Lite

May 24, 2018
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Director Ellie Heyman and her talented cast have their hands full with this new work because it is, in some ways, a tale of two musicals.

Theater Review: “The Last Act” — Underdone

May 24, 2018
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Joshua Sobol isn’t interested in exploring dramatic possibilities but making sure his equation about the inevitable mechanics of violence works out.

Film Review: “Beast” — Dark Forest of the Heart

May 24, 2018
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Writer-director Michael Pearce’s debut feature is self-assured and finely-wrought.

Book Review: “The Last Utopians” — Visions for Tomorrow?

May 22, 2018
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Do these “four late nineteenth-century visionaries” still speak to us?

Jazz CD Review: Larry Goldings’s “Toy Tunes” — A Diverting Trio

May 22, 2018
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The music and performances on this delightful trio album are blithe and profound, a combination that should charm many listeners.

Dance Review: Displaced Persons — New York Theatre Ballet at Gardner Museum

May 21, 2018
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Going beyond the reasonable concept, there was the New York Theatre Ballet’s performance.

Jazz CD Review: Vocalist Kurt Elling’s Simple “Questions”

May 21, 2018
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For my taste, some of the songs on Kurt Elling’s The Questions simply aren’t challenging or interesting enough.

Concert Review: Boston Lyric Opera’s all-Bernstein Double-bill

May 20, 2018
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The BLO’s production was one of the troupe’s true staging triumphs of late, transforming the Steriti Ice Rink into a 1950s-style nightclub.

Visual Arts Interview: New Publics — Art for a Modern India, 1960s-’90s

May 19, 2018
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What was the influence of Western modernist imperatives on an art-making culture far removed from Europe and the US?

Classical CD Review: Andrew Manze and Vaughan Williams, Andris Nelsons and Anton Bruckner

May 19, 2018
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Andrew Manze and the RLPO have turned in one of the year’s great albums: potent, lyrical, haunting, and timely.

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