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Theater Review: “Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992” — “Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose”

September 14, 2022
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Anna Deveare Smith’s examination of racism in America remains powerful, 30 years on.

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Book Review: “The Fires of Lust” — Copulation in the Middle Ages

September 13, 2022
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Historian Katherine Harvey’s well-researched and lively book shows that in the Middle Ages lust had its way. Big time.

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Film Review: “Barbarian” — Scarebnb

September 13, 2022
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As with many horror and action films (and probably much of real life), the build-up is better than the eventual resolution/climax.

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Doc Talk: The Camden International Film Festival — Location, Location, Location

September 13, 2022
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This year the Camden International Film Festival, which may be the finest documentary film festival in New England, examines the importance of place.

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Television Review: “Reboot” — Laughing at the Corporate Hand that Feeds Him

September 12, 2022
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Reboot is a razor-sharp sitcom about the world of sitcoms and represents Steven Levitan’s triumphant return to comedy.

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Opera Album Review: An Opera by a Scandalous — and Murdered — Composer Is Brought Back to Life

September 12, 2022
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Alessandro Stradella’s Loving and Pretending (caa. 1676) gets a lively, precise, and characterful performance in this world-premiere recording.

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Book Review: “Autobiographies of an Angel” — A Short Wild Ride

September 12, 2022
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What we have here is the voice of one trying to navigate, endure, rise above, and somehow pacify a tapestry of cruelty and grief, while it struggles to find the words and voice that will do the work.

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Television Review: “The U.S. and the Holocaust” — Vital Questions Left Unanswered

September 12, 2022
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The U.S. and the Holocaust leaves a vital question unanswered: Is this the kind of nation we want to live and worship in?

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Coming Attractions: September 11 through 27 — What Will Light Your Fire

September 11, 2022
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As the age of Covid-19 more or less wanes, Arts Fuse critics supply a guide to film, dance, visual art, theater, author readings, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.

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Opera Preview: A Rachmaninoff Triple-Header!

September 11, 2022
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Odyssey Opera, and major singers from Ukraine and Russia, bring the great Russian composers’s three one-act operas to Jordan Hall on Sunday, September 25.

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