Review

Dance Review: American Ballet Theatre’s Eye-Popper of a “Sleeping Beauty”

June 17, 2015
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Few companies can do pageantry quite like ABT, buoyed by its vast resources as well as on this occasion the company’s desire to celebrate its 75th anniversary with panache.

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Book Review: “Twelve-Cent Archie” — A Highly Entertaining Look at the Teens of Riverdale

June 17, 2015
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What makes Twelve-Cent Archie such a congenial read is that Bart Beaty is a free thinker about comic books.

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Visual Arts: M.I.T.’s Memorial to Officer Sean Collier — Mundane Rather than Marvelous

June 17, 2015
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M.I.T.’s Sean Collier Memorial does not make a full-bodied artistic statement — it does not elicit a strongly felt aesthetic or visceral reaction.

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Theater Review: Gloucester Stage Company’s “Sweet and Sad” — Subtle to a Fault

June 16, 2015
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Richard Nelson does not compel us to pay attention to his characters’ psychological disclosures, and his reluctance to underline is refreshing.

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Visual Arts Review: Photographer Rose Marasco — The Search for Juxtapositions

June 16, 2015
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Rose Marasco’s strong sensibility is always at work, searching for contrasts to capture in her photos.

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Poetry Review: Restoring the “Old Questions” — Klaus Merz’s “Out of the Dust”

June 16, 2015
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Poet Klaus Merz wields his deceptively simple diction in order to pry open hidden secrets: what we leave unsaid, what we neglect, avoid.

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Concert Review: Paul Weller — No Nostalgia for This Aging Rocker

June 15, 2015
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With most of his contemporaries doing reunion tours or playing decades-old albums, Paul Weller is one of the few claiming his right to be a still-evolving artist.

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Theater Review: The BSC’s “Man of La Mancha” — A Marvelously Robust Revival

June 15, 2015
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If you revel in witty lyrics and soaring melodies as I do, you will love this Man of La Mancha

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Album Review: James Taylor’s “Before This World” — Still Singing Pretty

June 15, 2015
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Before This World is a remarkable collection of what James Taylor calls “agnostic hymns, recovery songs and love songs” that stands up to the best of his work.

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Theater Review: “Three” Equals Zero

June 14, 2015
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In truth, Three is not much of a play at all, but an anthology of “very special episodes” of an unproduced television or web series.

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