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Film Review: “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” — House Arrest in Iran

October 30, 2024
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A corrupt media lies at the core of “The Seed of the Sacred Fig”‘s powerful condemnation of Iran’s politics, particularly their treatment of women, often in unexpected ways.

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Dance Review: Choreographer Leonid Yakobson — Soviet Rebel Under Cover

September 22, 2015
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Boston Ballet’s reconstructed versions of Yakobson’s Pas de Quatre and four Choreographic Miniatures were a revelation.

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Concert Review: Queen + Adam Lambert at Boston’s TD Garden

August 6, 2017
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To their credit, replacing Freddie Mercury is not something his surviving bandmates have ever tried to do.

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Visual Arts Review: A Delightful View of Edward Gorey’s World

April 18, 2018
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The delightful Wadsworth installation is a fitting setting for the beloved artist and illustrator and the work he himself loved.

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Classical CD Reviews: Lars Vogt plays Beethoven, James Ehnes plays Walton, Denis Kozhukhin plays Ravel & Gershwin, Francesca Dego plays Paganini & Wolf-Ferrari

March 26, 2018
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Superb discs from pianist Lars Vogt, violinist Francesca Dego, pianist Denis Kozhukhin, and violinist James Ehnes on the viola.

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Theater Review: “Our Town” — An American Classic That Still Holds Up

September 24, 2025
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Given all the chaos and violence around us, isn’t it a mite too late for a subtle play like “Our Town” to be considered a “primal scream?”

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Film Review: “The World to Come” — A Haunting Female Frontier Romance

February 5, 2021
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The excitement of these films – perhaps the word frisson would not be amiss – is that these women are envisioned as explorers in the land of Eros, map-makers of new terrain, discovering and inventing love as they go.

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Visual Arts Review: Manet at the Gardner — The Tension Between Revelation and Obfuscation

November 9, 2024
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It is a great gift that the Gardner Museum has made such a strong and lively exhibition, presented exclusively in Boston, devoted to Manet.

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Dance Review: Wayne McGregor’s Anemic “Rite of Spring”

May 31, 2018
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Could it be that choreographer Wayne McGregor choked in the face of the Rite of Spring challenge?

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Film Review: 1930’s “Ingagi” — An Elusive Beast from the Dark Shadows of American Cinema Emerges

March 22, 2021
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In its day, Ingagi raked in the crowds with a promise of weird African animals and “wild” women, and a teasing of bestiality.

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