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Movie Review: Inscrutable “Interstellar” — All You Need Is Love?

November 6, 2014
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I don’t want to give anything away. Not that I could because I really had no idea what anyone was talking about, except that what it is really all about is love.

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Dance Review: Boston Ballet’s “Pricked” — Building Blocks

May 12, 2014
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Carrying cacti around the stage in boxes and placing them on their heads and in predictably suggestive positions, the Boston Ballet dancers looked like they were having a blast

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Classical Concert Review: Emmanuel Ax and the Boston Symphony Orchestra/Jaap van Zweden at Symphony Hall

February 15, 2012
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To judge from the all-around energetic playing of the BSO, it seems conductor Jaap van Zweden has struck a good rapport with the players and I, for one, look forward to hearing more from him in coming seasons.

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Theater Commentary: The Ruhling Class

March 30, 2008
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by Bill Marx “Catharsis isn’t a wound being excavated from childhood.” – Sarah Ruhl NPR as well as New York theater critics think playwright Sarah Ruhl, the “Golden Ruhl” with “The Midas Touch,” is sure money in the artistic bank. A winner of a MacArthur “genius” grant and a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2005 for…

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Opera Review: Boston Modern Orchestra Project Sheds New Light on “Frederick Douglass”

June 25, 2025
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Played and sung with verve in its New England premiere, “Frederick Douglass” stands as the most significant revival BMOP has undertaken in recent years.

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Concert Review: PoemJazz — Pure Poetry, Pure Music

January 22, 2025
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“PoemJazz” is a project where music and poetry reinforce each other, where the declaimed poetry works like the sung line of a song — though Robert Pinsky never sings or pretends to.

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Concert Review: Rolling Thunder — The Boston Symphony Orchestra and Violinist Ray Chen

March 18, 2025
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Violinist Ray Chen and the BSO delivered one of the most seismic performances of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto that I’ve heard.

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Theater Review: “All My Sons” — An American Antique

July 25, 2012
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If this sounds like a melodrama, that is because Arthur Miller wrote one. “All My Sons” was very much a product of the dramatist’s times and politics.

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Book Review: “Four Princes” — Sixteenth Century Carnage

March 30, 2017
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A historian’s view of the tumultuous world of early sixteenth century Europe, an age of exploration, revolt, and religious upheaval.

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Film Review: Stop and Smell (and Watch) the Corn — Fred Wiseman Slows Down in “Monrovia, Indiana”

October 25, 2018
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While nothing happens, there’s an understated splendor in all that’s uneventful here, so much so that I didn’t want to miss any of it.

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