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Theater Review: A Terrific “Memory House”

July 31, 2015
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The relationship between a now-single mother and her bright, troubled daughter makes for a convincing, pertinent, and deeply funny play.

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Visual Arts Review: “The Ravages of the Ax” — Marc Swanson at MASS MoCA and the Thomas Cole National Historic Site

August 16, 2022
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A Memorial to Ice at the Dead Deer Disco does not demand political action from its audience. Instead, it allows viewers to sit within the stark reality of the present, and perhaps find some community within the shared reality that the space creates.

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Film Interview: Budd Schulberg on Being a Screenwriter in Hollywood

August 15, 2020
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“It’s really time for us to scrape off this cynicism and take a good hard look at what is happening in this country. There’s so much fakery and we don’t mind it.”

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Coming Attractions: July 2 through 18 — What Will Light Your Fire

July 2, 2017
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual arts, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.

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Arts Commentary: Pestilence on Stage, Part One — Karel Čapek’s”The White Plague”

April 1, 2020
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The White Plague uses dread to shock us into empathy for ourselves, to be alarmed by the fragility of our bodies as well as the resources and ethics of the medical system.

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Book Review: The Absurdity of Living in the Space Between — “Elsewhere” by Doron Rabinovici

August 7, 2014
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Elsewhere is a tragicomic work, its plethora of absurd coincidences an attempt to portray the senseless plight of the post-postmodern man.

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At the Full Frame Festival: “Chernobyl Before and After” — and Two Takes on Disability

April 22, 2022
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Be prepared to be shocked. But also be prepared for a horror story that is far worse than what was reported at the time — but not as bad as it could have been.

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Visual Arts Review: Immersed in Memory and Flight: Andrae Green’s “Paradise/Mash-Up” at the BCA

September 29, 2025
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For the artist Andrae Green, where land and sea meet is not a line, but an immersion.

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Book Review: “Back to Back” — A Powerful Portrait of East German Trauma, Personal and Political

January 11, 2014
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Using her family’s history as a springboard, Julia Franck has created exemplary figures forced to navigate the treacherous shoals of her country’s history.

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Children’s Book Reviews: Exciting Innovators –Three Surprising Picture-Book Biographies

March 25, 2024
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Three lesser-known innovators are profiled in these intriguing picture book biographies.

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