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Theater Review: The Broadway Revival of “Sunset Boulevard” Assaults the Senses

November 9, 2024
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Director Jamie Lloyd’s loud and brash revival is all sound and fury, signifying nothing.

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Translation Spotlight: The Philosopher on the Threshold

April 11, 2025
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In three books of oblique self-reflection Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben explores and exposes the artistic and intellectual thresholds that have been central to his life and to the life of his mind.

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Film Review: “Spencer” — Royal Damsel in Distress

November 4, 2021
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This portrait of Princess Diana interweaves facts with fantasies to create an impressionistic profile of a troubled woman trapped in a golden cage.

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Dance Review: Gauthier Dance — Distinctive Exuberance

July 8, 2016
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As a group they are exuberant, personable, immediate, which in turn makes even the meh choreography palatable.

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Theater Reviews: “Because of Winn Dixie” in Connecticut and “The Lightning Thief” in Boston

July 23, 2019
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Two new musicals aimed at young audiences: One sings, the other yowls

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Film Review: “We Always Lie to Strangers” — One Part of America, Singing

November 29, 2014
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These are good people who have grown up playing country and pop music and are committed to giving the people what they want.

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Visual Arts Review: Anne Lilly and Carrie Seid — Tapping Into the Potential of Abstraction to Puzzle

November 28, 2014
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Each artist leverages the power of abstraction to bewilder in ways that provoke ideas and a variety of emotional reactions.

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Fuse Theater Review: The Apple Pie Beauty of “reasons to be pretty”

March 13, 2011
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Now that dramatist Neil LaBute’s scripts are being produced on Broadway he has fanned the earlier whiffs of amorality in his work away. The obscene language and provocative hooks remain, but those are not a bar to popular success (think of David Mamet).

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Poetry Review: Lyrical Outrage — Songs of the Resistance

April 30, 2017
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Many of the poems live up to the title’s shout-out to Walt Whitman, cutting through the current political miasma with fresh wit, insight, and lyrical outrage.

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Theater Commentary: The Boston Theatre Critics Association — Wasting Its Time

May 28, 2018
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Recommended hashtags for the Boston Theatre Critics Association: #MeTooGiveMeTime, #MeTooNotYet

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