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Theater Review: “Flight of the Monarch” — Grand Local Color

September 19, 2017
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The Gloucester Stage Company is mounting a delightful world premiere production of a superb play.

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Theater Review: The Remarkable “Royale” — More Than a Sports Story

September 19, 2017
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The Royale launches the Merrimack Repertory Theatre season with a gloriously theatrical punch to the gut.

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CD Review: Pianist and Composer Satoko Fujii — Jazz’s Whirling Dervish

April 7, 2017
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These trio of releases from pianist Satoko Fujii are exciting snapshots of a jazz daredevil in action.

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Concert Review: Discovery Ensemble/Courtney Lewis at Sanders Theater

December 4, 2012
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Bravo to Courtney Lewis and the Discovery Ensemble for programming Esa-Pekka Salonen’s “Five Images” and pulling off such an engrossing performance.

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Jazz CD Review: Vijay Iyer and Wadada Leo Smith — Exploring Cosmic Possibilities in Sound

March 21, 2016
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Pianist Vijay Iyer and trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith produce music that is precise and quietly evocative, peaceful and gently probing.

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Book Review Commentary: Pick Up the Tomahawk!

July 27, 2007
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By Bill Marx Book reviewing is at a crossroads. Major newspapers and magazines are cutting column inches devoted to the evaluation of books, while blogs and book review sites online raise issues of ethical standards and quality control. Where should those who believe in the survival of book criticism expend their time and energy? Can…

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Dance Review: Dance Against Atrocity

November 15, 2005
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Audacious as it sounds, a new dance work by an innovative choreographer explores how human beings have expanded our ability to articulate the nature of crimes against humanity. “Small Dances about Big Ideas” by the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange Company. By Debra Cash It was counterintuitive, to say the least, when Professor Martha Minow asked…

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Theater Review: “As You Like It” — The Comic Comforts of a Green World

August 3, 2025
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The high spirits and tolerance in this enjoyable production reinforce the director’s claim that this comedy is about expats striving for “a more balanced, egalitarian society.”

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Book Review: Robert Walser’s Big Small Thoughts — Modest But Miraculous

June 29, 2012
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In his prose and poetry, Swiss writer Robert Walser revolts from the chaos of modernity, engaging in extreme subjectivity only to confess to the heresy that is the self, choosing to revel in the simplicity of the rural life. Not for truth, but for the sake of a fleeting rapture.

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Dance Interview: Debra Cash Named Executive Director of Boston Dance Alliance

January 8, 2015
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“My first order of business is to do a listening tour. I will have the same question for everyone I meet: what do you need to do your work?”

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