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Coming Attractions: November 9 Through 24 — What Will Light Your Fire

November 9, 2025
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Our expert critics supply a guide to film, visual art, theater, author readings, television, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.

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Opera Album Review: World-Premiere Recording of a Still Deliciously Daffy Italian Comic Opera from 1769

November 30, 2025
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Paisiello, one of the most successful opera composers in Mozart’s day, offers repeated delight and surprises in this entertainment, thanks to a splendid cast of mostly youngish singers.

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Concert Review: Powerhouse Jessica Vosk “Sleighs” Boston Audience

December 9, 2025
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It turns out that singer Jessica Vosk’s personality is just as big and colorful as her voice. Add to that her zigzagging brand of comic spontaneity, and you had an evening filled with joyous holiday spirit.

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Book Review: The “Night” Movies of Film Critic A.S. Hamrah

December 9, 2025
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Once again, critic A.S. Hamrah sheds perceptive light on our cinematic malaise.

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Arts Commentary: Rich in Creativity — But Nothing Else

December 5, 2025
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Predictably, when you get to the discussion of money, honey, the rubber hits the road.

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Film Review: “Wake Up Dead Man — A Knives Out Mystery” — Holy Murder

December 9, 2025
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This well-done mystery supplies an insightful look at how money, politics, and religion have become intertwined—and where that may be taking us.

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Theater Reviews: Broadway’s Big Revivals — “Ragtime” Reclaims Its Strength, “Chess” Can’t Find Its Footing

November 27, 2025
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Returning musicals take another shot at success – with very different outcomes.

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Poetry Review: Pennie for Your Thoughts — Social Media, Abuse, and Scottish Verse in “poyums annaw”

November 11, 2025
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This is poetry that sets its goals, finds the right language to reach them, hits hard, and recovers an ancient purpose for verse that has fallen by the wayside in recent times: consolation.

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Theater Review: “Lizard Boy” — A Comic Book-Musical Quest that Celebrates Teenage Self-Acceptance

November 7, 2025
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The themes of “Lizard Boy” would land more squarely—and more powerfully—with a teenage audience than they can with those of us who can only recall such a time in our lives.

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Book Review: The Insider’s Legacy: Malcolm Cowley and the Rise of U.S. Literature

November 26, 2025
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Literary critic Malcolm Cowley’s in-the-trenches vision of modernism deserves to extend beyond the halcyon epoch he witnessed — a case made splendidly by Gerald Howard’s biography.

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