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Theater Review: “The End Is Nigh” — and It’s a Blast: LaB’s Satirical Pageant of Survival and Spectacle

March 14, 2026
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Come for the frolic and high energy professional stagecraft; stay to experience this creative ensemble’s answer to: Who the hell are we, facing the end?

Dance Review: Gibney Company’s Chamber-Scale Brilliance Lights Up the ICA Stage

March 14, 2026
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The Gibney Company has brought a three-work evening to town that any chamber-sized contemporary dance company in the world would admire.

Visual Arts Review: Flux and Form — Calder-Klee and Giacometti-Rothko Dialogues at MFA Boston

March 13, 2026
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“Taking a Line for a Walk: Alexander Calder & Paul Klee” and “An Imagined Dialogue: Alberto Giacometti & Mark Rothko” are touching reminders of the remarkable kindness inherent in making art – the desire to reach across time and space to offer something to another.

Children’s Book Reviews: A Pair of Notable Women

March 12, 2026
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Two new biographies spotlight women whose remarkable achievements have enriched our understanding of our world.

Book Review: Unquiet Graves and Uneasy Truths in “Centroeuropa”

March 12, 2026
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An engaging and entertaining mystery, told in an evocative period setting, that deconstructs narrative conventions, analyzes the artifice of identity, and critiques the capitalist patriarchal system.

Theater Review: “Like Flies” — A Cauldron of Female Fury at Portland Stage

March 11, 2026
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Is anyone surprised that playwrights like Kearnan are creating works that show us women who are resourceful — and ready to fight back against their oppressors?

Book Review: Dead but Dealing — Alain Mabanckou’s Pointe-Noire Necropolis

March 11, 2026
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“Dealing With the Dead” achieves something else no outsider, however gifted or knowledgeable, could pull off: showing how magic, superstition, religious faith and credulity (as in, a hunger to believe) play into the everyday lives of most Pointe-Noireans.

Jazz Concert Reviews: Jamie Baum Quintet and Miguel Zenón Quartet

March 11, 2026
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Reviews of live performances by bands led by flutist and composer Jamie Baum and saxophonist Miguel Zenón.

Theater Review: “You Are Cordially Invited to the End of the World!” — A Hardy Party

March 11, 2026
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Keiko Green’s play about the end of the world is a robust vaudevillian entertainment.

Film Review: Echoes of Passion — Arnaud Desplechin’s “Two Pianos” Plays on the Keys of Loss and Love

March 10, 2026
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Here’s a drama that explores with uncommon pathos the ways that people confront—with grace or with fury—what they’re compelled to give up.

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