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Coming Attractions in Jazz: (early) August 2012

August 9, 2012
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Percussionist Vicente Lebron

Updated Aug. 9 at 3 p.m. In the second week of August, the power of percussion is much in evidence, with Mikael Ringquist and Marcus Santos, Manolo Mairena, Gary Fieldman, and Vicente Lebron. New Orleans adds some flavor with Christian Scott and Galactic, and Berklee Summer in the City just keeps rolling along.

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Theater Review: Dumbing Down “A Month in the Country”

August 8, 2012
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A 19th-century Russian masterpiece presented in a translation and a production whose mishmash of style distorts the play and confuses both actors and audiences.

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Theater Review: A “Coriolanus” Cut Down to Size on the Boston Common

August 4, 2012
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Shakespeare’s “Coriolanus” deals with the difficultly of recognizing superiority at a time of radical social breakdown, specifically when it is democracy that is in extremis.

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Theater Review: “The Admirable Crichton” Entertains Via a Sprightly Stiff Upper Lip

August 4, 2012
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“The Admirable Crichton” premiered in 1902, but the Peterborough Players bring this comedy about class division off admirably — as classy theater, not anthropology.

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Fuse Theater Review: “Running” in The Wrong Direction

August 3, 2012
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Why did Chester Theatre Company’s Artistic Director Byam Stevens choose such a banal, lazily-written play with no drama, no development, barely any interesting language, and none of the wit, charm or whimsy I’ve come to associate with this stage company?

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Theater Review: Wrestling With Art

August 3, 2012
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Ultimately the evening is NOT about wrestling. It’s about the root, the very nature of art. About the love of craft; about wanting and needing to create.

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Classical Music Sampler: August 2012

August 1, 2012
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August is a rich month for festival finales around New England.

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Fuse Theater Review: Dive into the “North Pool”

August 1, 2012
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Theatergoers will find Khadim a new character in the American theater: an entitled, cosmopolitan Middle Eastern teenager, born in Damascus to Iranian parents, who speaks Farsi, Arabic, French, and Italian in addition to English.

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Theater Review: A “Tempest” With the Wedding Bell Blues

July 31, 2012
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Olympia Dukakis’ Prospera is no tough feminist deity commanding a tiny kingdom. She is at her best when she plays the character as a feisty, down-to-earth mother who wants the best for her daughter.

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Theater Review: “All My Sons” — An American Antique

July 25, 2012
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If this sounds like a melodrama, that is because Arthur Miller wrote one. “All My Sons” was very much a product of the dramatist’s times and politics.

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