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Theater Review: “Private Lives” — Time for Retirement?

June 12, 2023
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Even when it is well-performed, as it is here, it is unclear whether Noël Coward’s well-constructed comic concoction deserves another theatrical lease on life.

Concert Review: Pat Metheny’s Side-Eye — A Very Modern Organ Trio

June 12, 2023
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At New Hampshire’s just-christened Nashua Center for the Arts, 68-year-old jazz guitarist Pat Metheny shared a wily sidelong glance at his own broad compositional and improvisational history.

Theater Review: A Sweet-Tempered “As You Like it”

June 11, 2023
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In the Actors’ Shakespeare Project’s likable staging of As You Like It, love looks pretty durable.

Jazz Albums Review: Craft Recordings Reissues — Coltrane, Monk, Davis, Previn, and Vinnegar

June 11, 2023
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As usual with Craft Recordings reissues, these lps are impeccably produced: the silence of the recording before the music starts is almost startling, but it’s the clear sound of what follows that is most impressive.

Theater Review: “Evita” — Encouraging Signs

June 10, 2023
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This American Repertory Theatre co-production gets so many of “Evita”‘s elements right — now all it needs is the musical’s combative soul.

Television Review: “Never Have I Ever” — A Groundbreaking TV Comedy

June 9, 2023
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We have the satisfying conclusion to a series that proved episodic dramas can — in fact, should — grow in depth past their first season.

Book Review: “Act Naturally: The Beatles on Film” — Everything You Would Want to Know About the Fab Four and Their Five Movies

June 9, 2023
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The problem is that the factoids and bits of trivia supplied by Act Naturally rarely tie back to any larger narrative, or serve any discernible purpose other than to be cataloged.

Music Interview: Talking with Samantha Fish about the “Death Wish Blues”

June 9, 2023
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Samantha Fish is coming to the Cabot Theater on June 16. Her latest disc, produced by Jon Spencer, currently sits atop “Billboard”’s Blues Albums chart.

Book Review: Jackson Lears’s “Animal Spirits” — A Chronicle of American Zing

June 9, 2023
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Historian Jackson Lears assembles sightings of a world that’s changeable, mutable, and filled with animalism, vitalism, or whatever else you want to call it. But what’s the point?

Theater Review: “The Gaaga” — A Savagely Funny Dream of Ukrainian Retribution

June 8, 2023
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The Gaaga’s humor is driven by rage, anger, and disgust, emotions that are not often found in our domesticated (for easy consumption) theater scene.

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