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Theater Review: “Chill” — Millennial Melodrama

March 29, 2017
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Chill is a solid enough attempt to dramatize a millennial coming-of-age story, but it is reluctant to probe very deeply into the guts of the zeitgeist.

Stage Review: “Our American Hamlet” — Theatrical Redemption

March 29, 2017
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There are powerful intimations of modernity in the writhings of Edwin Booth’s psyche.

Stage Review: “Sinners” — Theater that Matters

March 29, 2017
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Questioning Joshua Sobol’s right to write about these kinds of intimate atrocities is to suggest that stages should never address these issues.

DVD Review: “Canoa: A Shameful Memory” — A Masterpiece of Mexican Political Cinema

March 28, 2017
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Canoa is a historical drama about the horror of history, made all the more frightening because it is based on a true story.

Concert Review: Grand Harmonie’s March Madness

March 28, 2017
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This invigorating, sometimes unpredictable, Beethoven-heavy program certainly offered its share of athleticism and energy.

Film Review: The Maine Jewish Film Festival — “BANG! The Bert Berns Story”

March 27, 2017
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A documentary about the most important songwriter and record producer from the sixties that you’ve never heard of.

CD Reviews: Petrenko’s Elgar and Orozco-Estrada’s Dvořák

March 27, 2017
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Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra serve up some curious and, from time to time, rather languorous Elgar.

Dance Review: Boston Ballet’s “Kylián/ Wings of Wax”

March 26, 2017
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Kylián’s astute choice of musical selections helped gave a structural shape to “Wings of Wax.”

Visual Arts Review: A Luminous “Lumia” at Yale University Art Gallery

March 26, 2017
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The result is reminiscent of a Mark Rothko painting — if it was projected through the refracted light of a prism.

Music Review: The Rolling Thunder of Kodō’s DADAN

March 25, 2017
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With each piece, the impressive physicality of Kodō’s drummers becomes even more theatrical.

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