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Theater Review: “Alma” — A Matter of Justice

February 27, 2023
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This is an immigrant story that we’ve heard over and over again. Still, despite its familiarity, this particular quest for the American Dream — told in a wonderful and often funny mix of Spanish and English — is compelling and interesting.

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.

The Arts on Stamps of the World — December 23

December 23, 2017
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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

Book Interview: Tracy Fessenden, author of “Religion Around Billie Holiday”

May 14, 2018
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“It seemed worthwhile to me to think about how the spiritual currents Billie Holiday navigated might have shaped her life and her sound and what she and others made of them.”

Rock Album Review: “Gold-Diggers Sound” — Lulling to the Max

August 30, 2021
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Leon Bridges is the master of soft sensual tones, particularly when he intermingles the romantic and the steamy.

Book Review: The Woman Behind “All-of-a-Kind Family” — A Remarkable Legacy

June 17, 2021
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Biographer June Cummins considers the first All-of-a-Kind Family book, published in 1951, as groundbreaking and Sydney Taylor as “one of the first writers of multicultural literature for children.”

DocTalk: The Boston Jewish Film Festival — Delicately Retrieving the Past

November 6, 2024
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Memory – elusive and essential, tormenting and inescapable – serves as a theme for several of the documentaries in this year’s BJFF.

Television Review: “Étoile” Puts a Promising Dramatic Spotlight on Ballet

April 29, 2025
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All of the gritty challenges for today’s ballet companies are touched on in “Étoile”, including financial troubles, union strikes, rapaciously controlling donors, jealous, egomaniacal dancers, and more bumps in the road.

Opera Album Review: Gluck’s Final Opera Finally Steps into the Spotlight via a Superb New Recording

March 13, 2024
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Rejected in Gluck’s time because it lacked dramatic thrust, today “Écho and Narcissus” proves to be a candy-box of delights.

Concert Review: Boston Symphony plays Widmann and Brahms at Symphony Hall

October 7, 2016
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The intellectual and emotional intelligence of the docket stands as a conspicuous example of exemplary programmatic creativity.

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