Review
The only serious flaw in Boston Lyric Opera’s stripped-down staging approach to Aida was that not all the participants were quite up to the organization’s usual standards.
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When the performers finally left the platform, breathing hard, crawling towards us and into the audience, I realized I was seeing something new.
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Abigail C. Onwunali’s powerhouse performance is memorable, but the mechanics of Mfoniso Udofia’s play don’t always match the lead’s boundary-stretching strengths.
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“Hot Frosty” is dumb all right, but it’s also endearing, funny, and cute.
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Just how unethical was the Stanford Prison Experiment? Could anybody — in good conscience — recreate it? Why does being given authority change people so radically?
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Sitting in my bedroom, viewing a screener copy of “Dream Team”, my initial bewilderment eventually curdled into boredom.
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Documentaries on George Michael, Janis Ian, and Jackie Shane look at musicians who grappled with the fear and consequences of expressing their true identities.
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In this illuminating show you’ll recognize the state that (for now) is home to Donald Trump and was the habitat for Jeffrey Epstein and a wide range of other dangerous creatures.
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This stage adaptation of Mary Shelley’s novel earns its keep — the production is provocative, well acted, and completely engaging.
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There was, after all, something Faustian in the prospect of an elixir that promised to reveal glimpses of the divine while simultaneously burning pits of fire in the seeker’s brain.
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