Review

Theater Review: Reasons to Love the Maly Drama Theatre’s “Three Sisters”

March 4, 2016
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I’m deeply grateful to Arts Emerson for bringing the Maly Drama Theatre to Boston and hope for more.

Film Feature: Icelandic Culture Invades Boston

March 4, 2016
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This year’s Taste of Iceland is bringing in only one film, Rock in Reykjavik, and it is screening only once.

Dance Review: Russian Romantics — John Cranko’s “Onegin” at Boston Ballet

March 3, 2016
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The rapturous reaction to Boston Ballet’s performance on Sunday afternoon demonstrated that this kind of work can still move an audience.

Book Review: “What The Eye Hears” — Putting the Wrong Foot First

March 1, 2016
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Brian Seibert’s history of tap dancing has unleashed something I can only describe as a tap world pissing contest.

Classical Music Review: Sir András Schiff — “The Last Sonatas,” Performed Divinely

February 29, 2016
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Those assembled at Boston’s Jordan Hall were thoroughly prepared to be enraptured.

Music Review: Jason Isbell, Laid-Back — More Country Than Country-Rock

February 29, 2016
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Jason Isbell has got sober, and his songs ring with the urgency of the newly recovered (and newly remarried, to his violinist Amanda Shires).

Stage Review: Sonic Life on the Office Floor — The Bitter Truth

February 28, 2016
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Okada’s play reflects how skepticism has become the default stance for young adults shellshocked by post-recession economic restructuring.

Film Review: “A War” — Despair, Carefully Calibrated

February 27, 2016
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The movie plays all sides equally, providing no answers, no favorites, no villains, no heroes. Everybody’s motives and ethics are in question.

Visual Arts: Stunning “Intersections” at Peabody Essex Museum

February 25, 2016
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In a period of radicalism and terrorism, this installation serves as a beacon for remembering the beauty of the best of Islamic creative culture.

Theater Review: “1984” — It’s Later Than You Think

February 24, 2016
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1984‘s theatrical vision of authoritarianism in action is not for the faint of heart.

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