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Arts Commentary: SAG-AFTRA On Strike — Not Just About Jobs, But the Soul of American Culture

July 16, 2023
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The battleground is where technology meets art meets finances.

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Book Interview: “1941: The Year That Keeps Returning” — Doubt is not a Fatal Weakness

January 7, 2014
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Through meticulous research, interviews, and reminiscence, this compelling book illuminates a nook in the heart of darkness.

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Theater Preview: Something for Everyone — How Providence-Area Stages are Surviving, Post-Pandemic

December 19, 2023
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Providence-area professional theaters have fared better than most in terms of surviving and rebounding from the pandemic.

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Film Preview: The Weirdly Beautiful World of Rosamond Purcell — “An Art That Nature Makes”

November 13, 2016
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Rosamond Purcell’s striking photographs are about surprising transformations, the unexpected magic of metamorphosis.

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Book Review: The Unwavering Gaze — Fabritius and Donna Tartt’s “The Goldfinch”

January 23, 2014
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In Donna Tartt’s much-lauded third novel, Fabritius’ painting “The Goldfinch” and the fleeting nature of, well, everything comes together for a brief and shining moment.

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Film Review: “Spencer” — Royal Damsel in Distress

November 4, 2021
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This portrait of Princess Diana interweaves facts with fantasies to create an impressionistic profile of a troubled woman trapped in a golden cage.

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Theater Review: “The Blue Flower” — The Kitsch of Death

December 12, 2010
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The set-up sounds promising, a look back at a time of furious intellectual and artistic ferment, especially with its demand for art that challenges rather than caters to conventional tastes, creativity that revels in distortion, the surreal, the political, and the visceral. The Blue Flower. Music, Lyrics, and Script and Videography by Jim Bauer. Artwork,…

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Theater Review: Annie Baker’s “John” — A Feminist Black Comedy

August 9, 2015
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Pulitzer Prize-winner Annie Baker’s John is a haunting feminist drama about women and madness.

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Opera Album Review: An Italian Comic Opera, or Is It a German One? You Decide

August 9, 2021
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Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari’s delightful 1906 comic opera, via the first recording of the version heard at the work’s premiere.

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Classical CD Reviews: “La Damnation de Faust,” Villa-Lobos’ Guitar & Harmonica Concertos, and Messiaen Orchestral Works

December 26, 2019
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John Nelson’s La Damnation de Faust is a triumph; you will rarely encounter Villa-Lobos played with greater understanding or in better sound than here; Paavo Järvi and his orchestra’s survey of Messiaen orchestral works early and late is resplendent.

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