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Dance Review: Trophy Games at the Boston Ballet

November 1, 2016
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You’re not supposed to look for deep meaning in this often-revised jumbo of a ballet.

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Theater Review: “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” — Middle-aged Angst and Broad Humor

January 10, 2015
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While worth a look for its inspired performances, this Huntington Theatre Company production does not give us Christopher Durang at his madcap best.

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Book Review: Amina Cain’s “Indelicacy” — Brilliant, But Icy, Minimalism

February 10, 2020
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Amina Cain’s style is unusual, and it may tow readers so rapidly through this brief novel they won’t look back.

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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.

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Remembrance: Dorothy Malone — Hollywood Siren

January 23, 2018
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Could Dorothy Malone be the only person in the world to have dated both Sinatra and Liberace?

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Coming Attractions: December 17 through January 2 — What Will Light Your Fire

December 17, 2023
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Our expert critics supply a guide to film, dance, visual art, theater, author readings, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.

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Film Review: “A Bigger Splash” — Romance, Darkly Comic

May 15, 2016
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A Bigger Splash has a pleasing richness wherein the sensual elements bind the individual characters to each other, and to nature.

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Film Review: “Primaria” — A Penetrating View of the Cuban Ballet System

May 10, 2016
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Oh, it’s a strange world, ballet — filled with rituals and practices that Mary Jane Doherty captures with sharp-eyed grace.

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Movie Review: ‘Sweeney Todd’

December 21, 2007
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By Caldwell Titcomb Stephen Sondheim has written the music and lyrics of at least a half dozen of the twentieth century’s greatest works for the musical theater. One of them is – to provide its full title – Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. It has now been turned into a movie, which…

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Theater Review: “On the Exhale” — Wild, Angry, and Powerful

July 29, 2019
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On the Exhale is one of the most powerful and uncompromising one-person shows I’ve ever seen.

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