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December Short Fuses – Materia Critica

December 5, 2021
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

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Theater Review: A.R.T.’s “Romeo and Juliet” — What’s Love Got to Do With It?

September 14, 2024
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Cinematic in inspiration, Diane Paulus’s direction whips up terse bursts of adolescent energy, tapping into a cocky hunger for self-destructive combat.

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Theater Review: From Page to Stage — Shakespeare’s “The Rape of Lucrece”

September 10, 2015
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Dan Hodge turns two hundred and fifty stanzas of Shakespeare’s rhyme royal into the stuff of a high-class poetry slam.

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Film Review: “The Red Turtle” — A Singular Talent

February 24, 2017
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The Red Turtle is a poem to individual visual artistry and not to the anonymous machinery of technology.

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Book Review: “The Making of the American Creative Class” — Unions, Their Rise and Fall

January 29, 2021
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This history of union activity among white-collar workers in New York City tells an illuminating story about creative labor’s effort to be treated with respect by the powerful.

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Coming Attractions in Film: October 2011

October 2, 2011
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New England theaters, and especially Boston’s, have compiled a fantastic lineup of programs for October, a classically-great month for films (especially if horror is your thing).

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Nix Chick Lit

November 14, 2005
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Anyone who reads this bestselling, critically acclaimed novel becomes part of the focus group for the inevitable television or Hollywood stinker.

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Concert Review: The Boston Artists Ensemble Plumb the Hidden Depths of Mozart

January 8, 2025
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When performed with this high level of polish and poise, even Mozart’s darkest music can make you smile.

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Opera Album Review: A Fabulous World Premiere Recording of a Major Work of the French Baroque Era

November 20, 2023
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This splendid album offers ample proof that Henry Desmarest stands shoulder to shoulder with his major 17th century French contemporaries, Lully and Marin Marais.

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Theater Review: “The Niceties” — A Gentle Slap Awake?

April 9, 2018
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The Niceties gives us an invaluable opportunity to hover outside of the current political debate about race and American history.

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