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Concert Review: Billy Strings’s Streaming Strings Tour — Virtual but Unbridled

July 18, 2020
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If the first set was all about reminding us the breadth and depth of the talent in Billy Strings’ combo, the second set was all about dynamics and power.

Television Review: “Bully. Coward. Victim: The Story of Roy Cohn” — A Soulless Man

July 17, 2020
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Roy Cohn was much more pernicious than Joe McCarthy because he was far more adept at undercutting the relevance of so-called American values.

Book Review: “Utopia Avenue” — A Broken Record?

July 17, 2020
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These days, I worry that David Mitchell is losing touch with reality.

Television Review: ” I’ll Be Gone in the Dark” — True Crime, with Empathy for the Victims

July 16, 2020
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To its credit, this “true crime” documentary treats the tragedy of each victim with empathy and respect.

Film Review: Writer Flannery O’Connor — A Singular and Mysterious Consciousness

July 16, 2020
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With its many virtues, Flannery isn’t the perfect film biography. It’s a shoot-by-the-numbers conventional PBS American Experience.

Critical/Theater Commentary: Slapping Sleeping Media Outlets A “Woke”

July 15, 2020
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Taking action on even a modest number of these suggestions will undoubtedly shake up the current puerility of much of American theater criticism.

Book Review: Robert Glick’s “Two Californias” — An Affinity for Fragmentation

July 15, 2020
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Two Californias is full of humor, good writing, and thoughtful angles on human existence—with zombies thrown in for good measure.

Dance Review: José Limón Company at Jacob’s Pillow — Empowering and Necessary

July 14, 2020
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Kudos to Jacob’s Pillow for this stellar beginning to a digital season of dance.

Arts Commentary: Reviewing Music, Re-viewed

July 14, 2020
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Our opera-loving reviewer contrasts his own pieces, written 48 years apart, on the same Offenbach operetta.

Performing Arts Series: Stories of Surviving COVID-19 — Non-Event

July 13, 2020
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What lies beyond COVID-19 for the arts community?

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