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Theater Review: “Grand Concourse” — You Gotta Have Faith

March 8, 2017
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Grand Concourse does wondrous things: it encourages us ponder our own growth toward faith while emphasizing with the struggles of others.

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Visual Arts Commentary: The ICA — The Limits of Being an Icon

March 7, 2017
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The nagging question: why didn’t the ICA didn’t create a building that offered options to be developed vertically?

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Theater Review: “The Night of the Iguana” — A Creature Feature

March 4, 2017
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The ART presents a staid production of Tennessee Williams’ talky chamber play about wanderers struggling to be released from their pain.

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Theater Review: ASP’s “Edward II” — The Intimacy of Political Violence

March 3, 2017
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Marlowe’s skill in maintaining a high level of complexity put the history play on a sophisticated footing.

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Concert Review: A Tale of Two Masses in B minor

March 3, 2017
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These are troubling times which make us realize how vital music — especially Bach — is to our souls, to our spiritual wellbeing.

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Dance Review: Meredith Monk — Songs With and Without Words

March 2, 2017
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Any performance of Meredith Monk’s is spare to the point of enigma, and also tremendously evocative.

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Concert Review: Shostakovich and Gubaidulina at Symphony Hall

March 1, 2017
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This was a stirring, thought-provoking, and, ultimately, moving reading of Shostakovich’s Seventh Symphony.

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Theater Review: “Stage Kiss” — The Stages of Romance

March 1, 2017
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Stage Kiss is Sarah Ruhl’s whimsical contribution to the age-old artistic theme of art vs. life.

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Film Review: “Kedi” — Caring for a City of Cats

February 28, 2017
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This endearing but unsentimental film explores the myriad connections that many Istanbul residents have to their feline neighbors.

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Book Review: Peter Handke — A Writer At War With Himself

February 28, 2017
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The imperative to engage with landscape, and thus leave or at least minimize the self, has become of great importance to Peter Handke.

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