Month: August 2016
The Boston Ballet II program was a miniature survey of classical ballet history, a perfect challenge for apprentice dancers.
Read MoreFilms like Indignation bypass body counts and superheroes in order to explore the mysteries and eccentricities of human behavior.
Read MoreThe staging is a brash translation of Shaw’s early twentieth-century delicacy into twenty-first century Yankee sensibilities.
Read MoreThis year I resolved to do an unapologetic fan experience at Newport Jazz.
Read MoreWhat made the authorities especially eager to tape Lenny Bruce’s mouth shut was his vigorous social and religious satire.
Read More“It might sound a little kooky comparing David Bowie to poet William Butler Yeats, but they had similar pitfalls as artists.”
Read MoreIn her fabulous, intensely involving book, author Katie Roiphe crawls into the deathbeds of five writers who wrote brilliantly and prolifically.
Read MoreUntil its closing scenes, Captain Fantastic takes a complex look at the wisdom of bucking the system or joining in.
Read MoreThomas Bidegain’s film Les Cowboys is political, but it is never heavy-handed.
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Author Appreciation: The Fiction of Kent Haruf — Surviving Ordinary Life with Grace
Kent Haruf’s novels remind us that even in the hardest lives, there is joy, often delicate and evanescent, but joy, nevertheless.
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