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Theater Review: Huntington Theatre Company’s “Tartuffe” — Relevant as Ever

December 5, 2017
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The Huntington Theatre Company’s production of Molière’s classic is bright and energetic.

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Theater Review: “Julius Caesar” — Attacked with Vigor

December 1, 2017
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Probably as it should be for a group called the Actors’ Shakespeare Project, the performances in Julius Caesar are the thing.

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Classical CD Reviews: Leonard Bernstein’s Complete “Piano Music” and Seong-Jin Cho’s “Debussy”

November 29, 2017
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Leann Osterkamp’s playing is rhythmically alive and sympathetic to Leonard Bernstein’s style; Seong-Jin Cho shows that he is an important pianist to watch.

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Stage Commentary: “The Boston Globe” to Boston Theater — Drop Dead?

November 28, 2017
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Critics were once seen as the ‘canaries in the mineshaft’ — now newspapers and magazines are closing down the mines.

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Theater Review: Israeli Stage’s “The Hearing” — Academic Freedom, Under Pressure

November 27, 2017
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Scripts like The Hearing also provide an optic through which to examine our own nation’s problems.

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Theater Review: “Incognito” — Mapping the Brain

November 19, 2017
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What we don’t know about the brain and the heart drives this at times unwieldy, yet ultimately satisfying, theatrical work.

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Theater Review: New York Round-Up — “Junk,” The Red Shoes,” “The Band’s Visit”

November 17, 2017
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The irony implied by Junk after the curtain goes down is the realization that white collar crime does pay.

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Theater Review: “The Revolutionists” — Comedy During the Reign of Terror

November 12, 2017
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Director Courtney O’Connor, the Nora Theatre, and its skilled cast do right by this hilarious historical comedy.

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Theater Review: “Souvenir” — An Intimate Gem

November 11, 2017
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Spiro Veloudos and his talented cast has given us an evening in the theater when all that makes us human comes to the fore.

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Theater Review: “Trapped in a Traveling Minstrel Show” — Look Forward in Anger

November 10, 2017
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Sleeping Weazel stages a gutsy production of an angry, ugly, and essential history lesson.

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