Review

Dance Review: At Harvard Dance Center — Duet Variations

April 12, 2015
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Featuring seven short dances by stellar choreographers of contemporary dance, the Harvard Dance Center’s spring program promised some rare enlightenment.

Theater Review: “Come Back, Little Sheba” — The Poignance of Repression

April 11, 2015
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The beauty of David Cromer’s production of Come Back, Little Sheba that by focusing on the play’s intense psychological undercurrents he minimizes its cultural mustiness.

Theater Review: Northern Exposure — Some Bright Theatrical Lights

April 10, 2015
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Two current productions make vivid cases for the strength of Canadian theater.

Theater Review: Yale Rep’s “Caucasian Chalk Circle” — Singing Well About Our Dark Times

April 10, 2015
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Those who want to experience the brilliance of Bertolt Brecht at its mellowest should head down to Yale Rep’s lively and moving production of The Caucasian Chalk Circle.

Book Review: “Erebus” — A Brilliant Hybrid That Bears Witness to Tragedy

April 10, 2015
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Erebus is wonderful, original book that defies categorization.

Visual Arts Review: Duane Michals — Photography as Amazement

April 10, 2015
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The photographer and the exhibition both make much of his outsider status and radical departure from the classic, reserved aesthetics of American art photography.

Poetry Review: “The New Oxford Book of War Poetry” — The Duty to Run Mad

April 8, 2015
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Editor Jon Stallworthy’s preference in this superb anthology is for poems that question, or provoke questions about, war.

Book Review: “Shame” — Racism and the Sins of Paternalistic Liberalism

April 8, 2015
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According to Shelby Steele, white liberals “dissociate” themselves from the past sins of white America by subscribing to the “poetic truth” that the United States is “characterologically evil.”

Theater Review: Lyric Stage’s “City of Angels” — A Witty, Jazzy Delight

April 7, 2015
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The Lyric Stage Company’s entertaining production of this Tony-winner for best musical, book, and score hits most of the right noirish notes.

Book Review: When Fate Totters — Pascal Garnier’s Bleak Romans Noirs

April 7, 2015
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Pascal Garnier’s characters slip through cracks, cross borders, pass through the thin mirrors of the self, and commit irreparable acts.

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