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Book Review: “Erebus” — A Brilliant Hybrid That Bears Witness to Tragedy

April 10, 2015
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Erebus is wonderful, original book that defies categorization.

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Television Review: Netflix’s Flimsy “House of Cards”

April 6, 2015
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For all the attention it receives and the level of cultural relevance it assumes House of Cards ought to be a much better series than its aggressive promotion makes it out to be.

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Theater Review: A “Big Fish” Out of Water at SpeakEasy Stage Company

March 22, 2015
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The problem is that John August’s book for the musical lacks most of what made his screenplay for the 2003 film so emotionally resonant for so many.

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Theater Review: “Make My Heart Flutter” — The Father of Israeli Drama Looks at the Foolishness of Infatuation

November 13, 2014
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To its considerable credit, Make My Heart Flutter is more existential, literary, and weird than most American comedies.

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Visual Arts Review: Mark Rothko’s Harvard Murals — Splendidly Revived

November 11, 2014
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Harvard’s team of magicians have brought the Rothko murals back to life.

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Concert Review: New England Philharmonic’s “Shall We Dance?”

October 27, 2014
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Quibbles about some characteristics of the new pieces aside, hats off to Richard Pittman and the New England Philharmonic for daring to present a program like this..

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CD Review Round-up: Hindemith Sonatas, Montage, Ensemble Epomeo, Vittorio Giannini Chamber music

February 17, 2015
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Evaluations of a number of intriguing new albums, including praise for a disc of string trios by Eastern European composers performed by Ensemble Epomeo.

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Theater Review: “The Jungle Book” — A Satisfying Entertainment

October 2, 2013
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Mary Zimmerman’s Jungle Book may not have the same kind of compelling narrative and emotional depth as her Bernstein/Voltaire tour de force, but there’s plenty of magic in this Disney/Kipling mash-up.

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Film Review: At the Turkish Film Festival — Magic Realism Conjured in Black and White

March 30, 2014
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Not many movies try to wring poignancy out of a distraught man standing in a field, shouting his anguish to the sky, while holding two severed limbs.

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Theater Review: A Moderately Powerful “Death of a Salesman” from The Lyric Stage Company

February 25, 2014
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A lack of dramatic combustion sometimes makes the Lyric Stage Company production, despite its intelligent detail, more staidly melodramatic than it should be.

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