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Film Review: “Janet Planet” — The Fertile Silence of Awareness

June 24, 2024
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As usual, Annie Baker is more interested in how viewers gather information, gleaned from bits of dialogue, than in wrapping up a neat plot or delivering a message.

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Concert Review: Lana Del Rey Strikes Like Lightning at Fenway

June 24, 2024
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What Lana Del Rey lost in time at Fenway she tried to make up for with the slew of guests she brought on stage.

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Theater Review: A Magical, Risky, Reimagined Production of “The Dybbuk”

June 23, 2024
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Arlekin Players Theatre’s “The Dybbuk” may not convince you of the supernatural, but director Igor Golyak is a magician.

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Film Review: “Ghostlight” — Stages of Grief

June 23, 2024
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A movie about an amateur theater company’s production of a classic play taps into the universal truth of irremediable and ineluctable loss. And there isn’t a dry eye in the house.

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Book Review: Chris Stein’s “Under a Rock” — A Complex Account of Love, Loss, and New York City

June 23, 2024
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Part of what makes “Under a Rock” special is Chris Stein’s open-eyed fascination with New York City.

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Theater Review: “Next to Normal” — More Relevant Than Ever

June 22, 2024
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This musical succeeds, at least in part, because it dares to shine a light on parts of our lives that we don’t like to talk about.

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Concert Review: Sister Act — The Naughton Piano Duo at Rockport

June 22, 2024
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In truth, recordings don’t capture the Naughtons’ symbiotic flair — the performance at Rockport revealed them not only to be a superb piano duo, but a significant cut above.

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Film Reviews: Provincetown International Film Festival 2024 — The Significance of Meeting Face-to-Face

June 22, 2024
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Four films at this year’s Provincetown International Film Festival shared the theme of face-to-face communication, exploring the pleasures and pitfalls of encounters unmediated by screens and phones.

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Opera Album Review: A Major New Opera that the Met Has Ignored — Tobias Picker’s “Awakenings”

June 22, 2024
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This world-premiere recording lets us hear one of the most effective recent operas, based on the famous book by Dr. Oliver Sacks.

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Tribeca Film Festival 2024, Part Two — Absurdism Kazakh-style and British Masters

June 21, 2024
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Two standouts at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival: “Bikechess” and “Made in England: The Films of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger”.

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