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Theater Review: “Einstein’s Dreams” — Time After Time

October 3, 2015
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Wesley Savick not only does a fine job of adapting Alan Lightman’s text, but in his role as director he squares the circle.

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Concert Review: BSO’s Andris Nelsons conducts Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky, and Rachmaninoff

October 2, 2015
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The BSO had a well-deserved couple of weeks off following their late-summer tour of Europe, and they took some time to regain their sea-legs.

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Book Review: The Blissful “Botched-Night Splendor” of Tram 83

October 2, 2015
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Tram 83 mirrors the most sordid and chaotic features of contemporary African cities, in which non-Africans also remain intimately and often deviously involved.

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Book Review: “Peggy Guggenheim, The Shock of the Modern” — The Woman Behind a Remarkable Legacy

October 1, 2015
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Although there is a strangely dour tinge to this biography of Peggy Guggenheim, Francine Prose is ultimately fair.

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Visual Arts Review: Corita Kent at the Harvard Art Museums — Mingling the Mundane and the Sublime

October 1, 2015
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The premise of the show, and especially the catalogue, is to put Corita Kent her rightful place in the pantheon of major American Pop artists

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Book Review: “The Invisible Bridge” — Stranger and Scarier Than Fiction

October 1, 2015
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it’s useful to be reminded that Ronald Reagan, the revered All-American icon, was more simulacrum than savior.

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Fuse Theater Review: ASP’s Compelling “Othello” — Taking a Different Tack

October 1, 2015
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ASP director Bridgette Kathleen O’Leary chooses a nuanced approach to Othello that hews closely to the text.

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Visual Arts: Strandbeests — Theo Jansen’s Divine Machinery

September 29, 2015
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Theo Jansen’s kinetic sculptures delightfully blur the conventional lines that divide art, science, and storytelling.

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Theater Review: “Mr Joy” — Empowerment Overload

September 28, 2015
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It is no longer enough for a playwright to go into the belly of the ‘beast’ and pray for help.

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Film Review: “The Second Mother” — A Sensitive Study of Class Consciousness in Brazil

September 28, 2015
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The actors draw you in, so there is no need for extraneous exposition as the film carefully examines the ironies of the Brazilian class system.

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