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There’s no place like home at two local film festivals.
Read MoreUnlike fellow apostate (and friend) Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne didn’t have the chutzpah to be a proto-existentialist — for him, it was better to cling to questionable moral pieties than plummet into sheer nothingness.
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This is a lyrical, visually arresting, if sometimes verbally prolix film version of Denis Johnson’s sublime 2011 novella.
Read MorePatriots Day provides an intimate view of a heart-stopping week.
Read MoreIn his book Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman argues that American culture is becoming dumber and dumber—plays like Matt & Ben suggest that we have entered the afterlife. Matt & Ben by Mindy Kaling and Brenda Withers. Directed by M. Bevin O’Gara. At the Central Square Theater, 450 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, MA, through August…
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This is an amazing follow-up to Billy Strings’s Grammy-winning Home album.
Read MoreThe show, organized by associate director of BB II Peter Stark, was built to show off the talents and challenge the performing chops of the young dancers.
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The SpeakEasy Stage production is intimate and emotionally satisfying, highlighting the musical’s strengths — its sharply witty book, memorable songs, and heartbreaking characters.
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Frayed is an Australian/British comedy, and its refreshing sense of gallows humor draws on the pessimism in both cultures.
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This account of a formidable mother and equally formidable daughter is an absorbing read that packed the memoir form to the gills and demanded my attention.
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