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The BSO recently announced an extension to artistic partner Thomas Adès’s contract. It is lucky to have him. So are the rest of us.
To be truly effective black humor must have us laughing at something we fear, regret, or at the very least recognize.
“It’s not a concert about despair,” observes Joel Cohen, “there’s a lot of festive music in it.”
Commonwealth Shakespeare Company’s production of Birdy is at its best when it focuses on the play’s central relationships.
The playwright supplies a memorable encounter between young and old in the play’s final scene, but it is too late to compensate for the superficiality of the Pirandello-lite antics that have come before.
Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle turn in frequently hilarious but vulnerable performances as their adolescent counterparts.
We need stories like The Wages to expose the hypocrisy and incoherence of the institutions that we are supposed to believe are pillars of justice.
In the age of truthiness, poet Frederick Seidel’s is a welcome voice.
Trumpeter Jason Palmer’s mastery is of the unimposing kind, which this piano-less quartet seamlessly reflects.
Once is a wonderful musical and the Speakeasy Stage production does exquisitely right by its considerable merits.
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