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Theater Review: A Moderately Powerful “Death of a Salesman” from The Lyric Stage Company

February 25, 2014
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A lack of dramatic combustion sometimes makes the Lyric Stage Company production, despite its intelligent detail, more staidly melodramatic than it should be.

Theater Review: “Hard Love” — A Timely Exploration of a Bitter Religious Rift

February 25, 2014
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Motti Lerner’s characters succeed in making both the secular and ultra-religious life appear rewarding and believable.

Fuse Theater Review: Liars & Believers’ “Interference” is “Guernica” for Hipsters

February 24, 2014
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The 64,000 question is, if the artists’ concerns gravitated to the Marathon Bombings, why did “Interference”‘s press releases and the program cite Picasso’s “Guernica”?

Dance Review: A Memorable “Story/Time” From Bill T. Jones

February 24, 2014
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As for pulling out themes from Bill T. Jones’ gathering of tales, well, the bedrock of human existence seems to be very much on his mind — life and death, landscape and memory.

Film Review: “Stranger by the Lake” — An Eerie, Stylish Homoerotic Thriller

February 23, 2014
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This death trip romance is powerful, weird, and intoxicating — until its final scenes.

CD Review: SHUFFLE Concert — An Inspired Experiment in “Musical Democracy”

February 23, 2014
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SHUFFLE Concert has invented their own distinctive rules to performance, and their innovative approach, with its inspired programming, has been a hit.

Book Review: “Love Illuminated” — Navigating the Romantic Seas

February 22, 2014
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Daniel Jones is a beguiling writer, with a wonderfully irreverent way of addressing one of life’s most serious sources of joy and disappointment.

Film Review: Louis C.K.’s “Tomorrow Night” – Ernie Kovacs meets early John Waters

February 22, 2014
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“Tomorrow Night” is firmly in the makes-you-cringe vein of comedy of which “Louie” and “Curb Your Enthusiasm” would become exemplars.

Book Review: Philippe Jaccottet’s “Seedtime” — Exploring the Inherent Mysteries of the World As It Is

February 21, 2014
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French writer Philippe Jaccottet’s ever-questioning poetic analyses of haunting ephemeral perceptions are carried on with such scruple and sincerity that, for his European peers, he has become the model of literary integrity.

Film Review: “The Monuments Men” — Saving Great Art from the Nazis

February 20, 2014
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If George Clooney can rev up our righteous indignation decrying the barbarities of Joe McCarthy, why on earth couldn’t he become eloquent when it comes to talking about fighting to keep Hitler’s mitts off Michelangelo?

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