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Concert Review: The Verona Quartet Takes on Shostakovich, Haydn, and Brahms

February 24, 2018
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The Verona Quartet is certainly worth watching, above all for the intimate way in which they communicate with each other and with the audience.

Theater Review: Regicide in the Chapel — Actors’ Shakespeare Project’s “Richard III”

February 23, 2018
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Steven Barkhimer’s mastery of the role’s physicality is the key to his expression of its villainy.

Theater Review: “for colored girls …” — A Welcome Reprise

February 23, 2018
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Shange’s nervy mix of wordplay and in-your-face didacticism — of resilience in the face of hardship — is very much the empowering thing.

Theater Review: “Lost Laughs” — The Rise and Fall of a Silent Star

February 22, 2018
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Lost Laughs is an absorbing examination of the dark side of American celebrity.

Jazz CD Review: Owen Broder’s American Roots Project — Heritage

February 21, 2018
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I’ve never run across music like this and never had even a platonic notion of what such a hybrid would sound like.

Music Feature: The New Funk of Ripe — Making Happiness a “Heavy Emotion”

February 20, 2018
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Here we are more than a year into the tumultuous Trump era, and we have not seen a revival of angry punk or righteous folk.

Classical Music Concert: Handel and Haydn Society Does Bach Right

February 19, 2018
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It’s hard to sit through these six masterpieces and not feel, for the moment, that life is really good.

Film Review: “The Shape of Water” — A Dissenting View

February 19, 2018
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Del Toro creates a visually intriguing world, but the story’s premise is too farfetched to work.

Film Review: Oscar Nominated Shorts — Bitter and Sweet

February 19, 2018
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A devastating piece, given the recent mass murder in Parkland, Florida, but DeKalb Elementary unfolds with an almost eerie calm.

Visual Arts Commentary: The “Look” of the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics

February 18, 2018
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The branding for the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics is colorful, but not visually overwhelming like some of its predecessors

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