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Director Peter Jackson in his film adaptation of The Hobbit abandons the intimate scale of the original wonder tale and mistakenly blows it up into mythic proportions.
Read MoreIcarus proffers plenty of spectacle and talent, but the show only recycles a story we’ve seen countless times on stage and screen.
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Director Frank Borzage’s wonderful 1937 History Is Made at Night, newly restored and released on Blu-ray and DVD by the Criterion Collection, defies pigeonholing.
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Attention is being paid today to talented composers who have been sidelined or disdained because of their race, ethnicity, religion, or sexual orientation. Reynaldo Hahn qualifies on several counts.
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This year marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of the Black American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, and this new biography does a thorough and compelling job in telling the story of a remarkable and partially tragic life.
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For Benjamin Zander and his musicians – as for all of us – it was a strange, even desperate, several months.
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This is an extraordinarily beautiful book, its present tense prose creating “an atmosphere of literature,” in Virginia Woolf’s words, its honest probing as illuminating as anything you will read about what it means to be Jewish.
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Hot Maroc is more of a three-ring circus than a drama, with a high-wire act at one end, tigers and elephants at the other, and scurrying clowns in the middle.
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For Boston, Derek Trucks designs the shows to celebrate Susan’s Tedeschi’s march from local clubs to being a commanding presence on concert stages around the world.
Read MoreAn Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.
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Arts Remembrance: To Sérgio with Love — Sérgio Mendes, 1941–2024