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Theater Review: Titanic Theatre Company’s Satire “Why Torture Is Wrong” Treads Water

August 1, 2013
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The Titanic Theatre Company production struggles with Christopher Durang’s superficial satire and manages to squeeze some laughs out of it.

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Theater Review: “How We Got On” — Exhilarating Hip Hop

July 31, 2013
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I am probably the last person anyone would see as a hip hop fan, but I walked out of the theater with a new appreciation for the music and the satisfaction of experiencing an old-fashioned coming-of-age story told in a refreshing new way.

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Theater Review: CSC’s “The Two Gentlemen of Verona” — A Cuddly Pair of Rats

July 16, 2013
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The Commonwealth Shakespeare Company’s production of “The Two Gentlemen of Verona” is spunky and engaging — but the play is spun in one direction, away from its weird edginess.

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Visual Arts Review: Of Cows and the Cosmos — Sharon Yates at the Whistler House Museum of Art

July 1, 2013
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Painter Sharon Yates’ patience and devotion breathes depth and character into a seemingly banal subject: cow pastures.

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Theater Review: “Muckrakers” — Too Close to the News

June 25, 2013
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In a novel spin on a very old theatrical situation, paranoia rather than lust drives the one-night stand in “Muckrakers.”

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REVISED: Judicial Review #11: “The Great Gatsby” — A Great Opera?

May 20, 2013
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This Judicial Review deals with the Boston premiere of John Harbison’s opera version of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby. Read the reactions and join the conversation.

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Film Review: Bert Stern — Original Madman

May 5, 2013
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What about Bert Stern, the artist? He deserves credit for bringing fashion photography into the modernist moment in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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Film Review: In Defense of a Cinematic Masterpiece — “To the Wonder”

April 28, 2013
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To The Wonder — the best American feature by far of 2013: beautiful, compassionate, tragic, transcendent.

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Judicial Review #10: Discussing the Point of Elizabeth Graver’s “The End of the Point”

March 19, 2013
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What is a Judicial Review? It is a fresh approach to creating a conversational, critical space about the arts and culture. This session discusses Elizabeth Graver’s new novel The End of the Point, a multi-generational story about the trials and tribulations of a family that takes place between 1942 and 1999 in Ashaunt Point, a fictional beach community on Massachusetts’ seacoast.

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Book Review: “How Literature Saved My Life” — Maybe

February 1, 2013
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Notwithstanding all that David Shields writes about the books and authors he loves, both classic and contemporary, he announces that today he can’t bear to write or read novels or even short stories in their old familiar forms and structures.

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