Review

Theater Review: “Made in China” — Puppets Made to Charm and Alarm

April 5, 2017
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Wakka Wakka’s puppetry skills are highly impressive, its staging inventive and undeniably entertaining.

Book Review: Roxane Gay — A Writer of Unusual Sensibility

April 4, 2017
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Roxane Gay is a bold writer of impressive range who experiments with magic realism, dystopia, and fantasy.

Film Review: “Frantz” — The Changeable Color of Grief

April 3, 2017
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Frantz explores the complicated emotions generated by the aftermath of a catastrophic war.

CD Reviews: Howell, Beach, and Chaminade Piano Concertos and Brahms String Quintets

April 1, 2017
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Hyperion builds a CD around a superb performance of Amy Beach’s magnificent Piano Concerto.

Theater Review: Mad Horse Theatre’s Talky Journey to the Afterlife

April 1, 2017
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Is the long trip through Purgatory worth the time? Not sure.

Concert Review: Singer Mavis Staples — Reliably Superb

March 31, 2017
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Mavis Staples’ colossal voice fully blanketed the entire venue and tucked its way into every nook and cranny.

Film Review: “Peter the Third” — A Melancholic Israeli Comedy

March 31, 2017
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This is an old story, but the approach this time around is fresh, the acting uniformly excellent, and the pacing just right.

CD Reviews: Andrew Manze conducts Mendelssohn and Charles Wuorinen’s Eighth Symphony et al.

March 31, 2017
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No orchestra in this country embraces the challenges of Charles Wuorinen’s hyper-intellectual style better than the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

Book Review: “Four Princes” — Sixteenth Century Carnage

March 30, 2017
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A historian’s view of the tumultuous world of early sixteenth century Europe, an age of exploration, revolt, and religious upheaval.

CD Reviews: Philip Glass Piano Works and Dessay’s Pictures of America

March 30, 2017
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There have been lots of recordings of Philip Glass to hit the market recently. One of the highlights is Víkingur Ólafsson’s Piano Works.

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