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Theater Review: “The America Plays” — Aisle of the Dead

September 18, 2019
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Listening to the dead speak, amid the natural grandeur of Mount Auburn Cemetery, is a moving experience.

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Theater Review: “Kinship” at Williamstown Theatre Festival– No Sex in the City

July 22, 2015
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In Kinship, dramatist Carey Perloff hasn’t found a language that conveys irrational longing.

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Poetry Review: A Provocative Step Out of the Shadows — Poet Anna de Noailles

January 27, 2013
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Literary history credits Rainer Maria Rilke with establishing European poetry’s seminal concern with the duality between inner and outer worlds. Could it be that Comtesse Anna de Noailles was his precursor in this regard? Translator Norman Shapiro and Black Widow Press should be thanked for bringing her back into the discussion.

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Rock Concert Review: Elvis Costello and Blondie — Fun, with Some Surprising Edge

July 25, 2019
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What could have simply passed for a nostalgic classic-rock spin turned out to be an expansive smorgasbord, frustratingly uneven at times, yet given to flashes of fervor and surprise.

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REVISED: Judicial Review #11: “The Great Gatsby” — A Great Opera?

May 20, 2013
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This Judicial Review deals with the Boston premiere of John Harbison’s opera version of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby. Read the reactions and join the conversation.

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Doc Talk: Two Boston-Area Film Festivals — The Strength of Community

March 22, 2023
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There’s no place like home at two local film festivals.

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The Judicial Review — What Is It?

April 5, 2010
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There is now an eighth Judicial Review, with the panel deliberating on the Boston University College of Fine Arts production of the 1990 Stephen Sondheim/John Weidman musical “Assassins,” which looks at the lives and sensibilities of men and women who attempted (successfully or otherwise) to kill the President of the United States. Below: background on…

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Rock Concert Review: Fontaines D.C. — From Dublin With Love

September 12, 2019
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Fontaines D.C. are gonna be big, or at least as big as a real rock band can be these days. And they’re making it all look effortless.

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Classical Music Review: The Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra in Brazil, Part One

June 21, 2019
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The BPYO’s repertoire in Brazil is drawn from last year’s programs and is built around Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto no. 2.

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Theater Review: “Sea Sick” — How Damned Is the Ocean?

May 14, 2022
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Personable but bracing, Sea Sick delivers an essential message: not only about the damage that is being done to the oceans, but the horrors that are coming down the pike.

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