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Theater Review: A High-Octane “Fela!”

May 1, 2012
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Don’t expect a standard musical. Think of Fela! as an immersive, artsy, concert experience featuring virtuoso displays of dance and musicianship.

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Film Homage: 1932’s “A Farewell to Arms” — A Perfect Movie for Valentine’s Day

February 12, 2015
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Oh, to be a lead character in a Borzage movie. You might expire during the final dissolve into “The End,” but man oh man, you will have loved. And you will have been loved.

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Fuse Dance Review: The Bang Group and Elders Ensemble — Grownups

May 6, 2015
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I wondered why the Elders Ensemble program so consistently portrayed the elders as somber and withdrawn.

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World Chess Culture: Cold War Checkmate

December 12, 2008
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“White King and Red Queen: How the Cold War Was Fought on the Chess Board” By Daniel Johnson. Houghton Miffilin, 384 pages, $26 Reviewed by Harvey Blume The book’s thesis about the Cold War is that chess was nothing less than sublimated war between the US and the USSR. For something that is neither war,…

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Dance Commentary: The Phoenix Rises — A Reimagined Doris Duke Theatre at Jacob’s Pillow

July 13, 2025
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Jacob’s Pillow’s new Doris Duke Theatre is a complete triumph. It is, in artistic director Pamela Tatge’s words, “nothing like we had in mind but exactly what we thought.”

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Film Review: Birds of Prey — Time of the “Cuckoo”

August 14, 2024
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“Cuckoo” bridges the experiences of cis and trans women together with overlapping concerns about how our bodily autonomy is increasingly controlled by patriarchal forces.

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Concert Review: Bob Dylan at the Orpheum — Far From the Same Old Song

November 4, 2023
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Songs were wholesale rearranged, and, most strikingly, Bob Dylan was a commanding presence at the baby grand piano for an 18-song, nearly two-hour set.

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Book Review: Annie Ernaux’s “The Young Man” — An Affair to Remember

September 13, 2023
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“I was in a dominant position, and I used the weapons of that dominance, whose fragility, in a romantic relationship, I nonetheless recognized.”

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Visual Arts Review: Otto Piene’s Sketchbooks at the Harvard Art Museums

July 6, 2022
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MIT’s loss is Harvard’s gain.

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Dance Review: Style Survey — “Kaleidoscope” at Boston Ballet

March 20, 2016
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I’d seen all of these works on the Boston Ballet’s program once or twice in the past. They all seemed to improve with these additional viewings.

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