Review

Theater Review: “The Moderate” — Ken Urban’s Dazzling, Disquieting Digital Drama

February 10, 2026
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A consistently engaging and engaged, insightful, humorous, scarily moving, polished contemporary drama with a premise to die for.

Sundance Fest’s Last Winter in Utah — Docs on a Small Town Newspaper, the Attack on Salman Rushdie, and Public Access TV 

February 10, 2026
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A trio of illuminating documentaries, their topics ranging from the struggles of a local newspaper to the days of public access cable television in New York City.

Book Review: “The Hadacol Boogie” –James Lee Burke’s Bayou Ballad of Blood and Redemption

February 10, 2026
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The point of a novel like this: Life is messy, but glorious. Kind of like “The Hadacol Boogie”.

Film Review: “Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die” — A Satire Too Stuck in the Now to Save the Future

February 9, 2026
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The film urges the audience to take action against AI, but it is too symptomatic of today’s paralysis to be of as much help as it would like to be.

Dance Review: “circlusion” Turns the Mattress into a Stage for Reimagined Femininity

February 8, 2026
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As this duet unfolds, it opens the way to musings about how a bed is a human-sized rectangle on which are projected dreams and nightmares, sexuality and erotic boundaries.

Visual Arts Show: Friendship and Inclusion — “To My Best Friend” at the ICA/Boston

February 8, 2026
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This exhibit is a fair reflection of the museum’s desire to spotlight work by artists who have traditionally been neglected by the museum world.

Film Review: Lav Diaz’s “Magellan” — Conquest as Apocalypse

February 7, 2026
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“Magellan” circles the world and the world circles the drain.

Jazz Album Review: Freedom Within Structure — Dave Douglas’s Bold and Playful “Four Freedoms”

February 6, 2026
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The members of Dave Douglas’ quartet members are alertly sensitive to each other and unfailingly intelligent in their choices, which makes them fun to hear.

Film Review: “The Choral” — Stirring Voices

February 5, 2026
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Despite an excellent cast, impressive production values, and the thrilling music at its heart, “The Choral” often feels as if it is trying to be several films at once.

Theater Commentary: Portrait of the Artist as a Predator

February 5, 2026
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Is it possible to separate the art from the artist or, in the case of Rhode Island’s Contemporary Theater Company, the artist’s husband?

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