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Theater Review: Flat Earth’s “Antigone” — Inspired, But Flawed

April 3, 2018
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Flat Earth Theatre’s staging of Antigone was filled with strong performances and provocative ideas.

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Film Review: “Spettacolo” — A Tuscan Town “That Plays Itself”

April 2, 2018
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The landscape and architecture are beautifully photographed, but more important are the array of faces and the music of the voices.

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Film Interview: Making a Movie of “The Spinning Man”

April 2, 2018
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A slow-motion road to the silver screen: Spinning Man author George Harrar talks about the journey from page to film.

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Jazz Concert/CD Review: Frank Carlberg and Noah Preminger — “Whispers and Cries”

April 2, 2018
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The talented duo’s ability to impressively converse across a stylistic divide was fascinating.

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Film Review: “Unsane” — Stalking 2.0

April 1, 2018
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Despite some storytelling flaws, Unsane is ultimately suspenseful, terrifying, and rather haunting.

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Visual Art Review: Public Art at Boston’s Fenway Neighborhood’s Pierce Boston Tower

March 31, 2018
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A lost opportunity for the developers, arquitectonica, and artist Alexandre da Cunha.

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Performance Art Review: A Powerful “Stain” on the Boston Common

March 29, 2018
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Those who stopped at the top of the Boston Common, at about 1 p.m., witnessed an extraordinary work of performance art.

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Classical CD Reviews: Alexander Melnikov’s Four Pianos and Leonard Bernstein’s Mass

March 29, 2018
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Pianist Alexander Melnikov has come up with one of the still-young year’s most compelling discs, Deutsche Grammophon releases an aural train wreck.

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Theater Review: “Little Orphan Danny” — Sweet and Raunchy

March 28, 2018
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Little Orphan Danny is an engaging and satisfying musical, a fun journey through the life of an affable troublemaker.

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Classical CD Review: Vänskä’s Mahler Six, Harding’s Mahler Nine, Louise Farrenc Symphonies, Handel & Haydn Society plays Haydn and Mozart

March 28, 2018
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Two Mahler symphonies, one sluggish the other intense, while symphonies composed by Louise Farrenc, Mozart, and Haydn are done right.

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