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Theater Review: “The Road to Where” — A Powerful Musical Memoir

August 25, 2015
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A friendly energy runs through the heart of The Road to Where, a tangible and inviting companionship.

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Warning: Outsider Art

August 15, 2005
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An increasingly popular movement in the visual arts prides itself on picturing everything that is the raw, untutored, and irrational.

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Book Review: “Books Promiscuously Read” — Playing in the Leaves

July 18, 2021
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Books Promiscuously Read sets a high standard for what might become an exciting new genre of literary criticism for educated general readers.

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Theater Review: “Gertrude Stein and a Companion” — A Satisfying Dramatic Fusion

July 4, 2019
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In two short acts, playwright Win Wells depicts not so much a relationship as a fusion, a merging of identities into one single, complex personality.

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Film Review: “M3GAN” — Child’s Slay

January 14, 2023
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M3GAN is a movie algorithmically generated to spawn as many memes about itself as possible before undiscerning viewers realize what they’re watching is a reworked Black Mirror draft.

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Television Review: “Étoile” Puts a Promising Dramatic Spotlight on Ballet

April 29, 2025
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All of the gritty challenges for today’s ballet companies are touched on in “Étoile”, including financial troubles, union strikes, rapaciously controlling donors, jealous, egomaniacal dancers, and more bumps in the road.

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Concert Review: Peter Gabriel — Still Trusting the Imagination

September 15, 2023
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The veteran English art-rocker gave a slow-to-develop but brilliant near-three-hour show that tapped stunning visuals while evolving from the cerebral to the celebratory, culminating in a joyous “In Your Eyes.”

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Film Review: “Under the Volcano” — Island Music

August 14, 2021
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Sir George Martin’s AIR Studios in Montserrat gave birth to some great ’80s music, then succumbed to the elements.

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Concert Review: Nicholas Kitchen and Yeesun Kim at the Worcester Art Museum

March 22, 2012
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WAM’s Chamber Music Series is a model for what chamber music performance ought to be: excellent musicians performing in a small space with a rather informal air to the proceedings.

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Theater Review: A Soaring “Silent Sky” at MRT

November 10, 2017
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I found myself almost wishing the dramatist had written a longer play (a rare desire coming from a theater critic).

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