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Fuse Appreciation: Henry Threadgill — A Pulitzer Prize for “In For a Penny, In For a Pound”

April 22, 2016
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Over the decades, avant-garde jazz musical Henry Threadgill has not only enriched but remade the musical landscape.

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World Music CD Review: Globetrotting Musician Stephan Micus — “Smartly Sublime”

September 3, 2015
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Claims that Stephan Micus erases international boundaries and makes one-world music get it backward. You visit his world on his records.

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Theater Commentary: Impressions of Canada’s Shaw Festival 2023, Part Two

September 23, 2023
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Canada is far enough from New York and Broadway to ignore their siren drum beats.

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Book Review: “Emmaus” — A Fictional Puzzle Wrapped in a Spiritual Enigma

May 13, 2012
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Alessandro Baricco’s novella Silk, filled with inchoate erotic longings for which there is no explanation, became an international bestseller. Emmaus, his latest book in translation, also contains mysteries.

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Jazz CD Review: “Distant Song” — Reflective Strength

April 14, 2018
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Singer Fred Farell brings an introspective sensibility to this album and has gathered a group of songs that are appropriate for his introverted and quietly aspirational lyrics.

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Stage Review: “Our American Hamlet” — Theatrical Redemption

March 29, 2017
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There are powerful intimations of modernity in the writhings of Edwin Booth’s psyche.

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Short Film Reviews: A Focus on The Boston Jewish Film Festival [2x Updated]

November 10, 2010
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And so I go, Jewish and glad to be, theatre director—maybe between gigs, old enough to believe that movies are best on the big screen among other (quiet) viewers and that you don’t have to be Jewish to love good Jewish movies. By Joann Green Breuer The danger of speaking critically of any ethnic art…

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Dance Review: William Forsythe’s Mind/Body Art Show

November 2, 2018
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One thing I liked so much about this show, besides the mental and physical challenges, was its use of really simple and mundane materials.

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Arts Review: “Bad Blood” and “The Dropout” — Valley Girl Set Aflame in the Bonfires of the Vanities

March 19, 2022
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Playing on their strengths and working within the limitations of each medium, both The Dropout and Bad Blood pull us into the very American story of Theranos’ and Holmes’ rise and fall.

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Classical Concert Review — A Far Cry’s “All-American” Finale

May 25, 2016
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One takeaway from the concert: music can be forward-looking and even provocative without being off-putting and ugly.

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