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Dance Review: Boston Ballet — Time After Time

September 10, 2018
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Jerome Robbins makes me think about how nonverbal characters can inhabit their times.

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Book Reviews: The Novels of Argentine Author Claudia Piñeiro — More Than Mysteries

January 8, 2024
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A death is routinely at the center of Claudia Piñeiro’s fiction, but the corpse sparks provocative questions about the way things are, not just an investigation into finding the murderer.

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Theater Review: “Julius Caesar” — Attacked with Vigor

December 1, 2017
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Probably as it should be for a group called the Actors’ Shakespeare Project, the performances in Julius Caesar are the thing.

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Film Review: “Everybody’s Talking About Jamie” — Queen for a Day

September 24, 2021
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This charming and upbeat musical doesn’t need to sashay away, but neither is it a hands-down winner.

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Film Review: “Ricki and the Flash” — A Damp Squib

August 15, 2015
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Ricki and the Flash is a film that is bad enough to hurt a lot of reputations.

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Film Review: “Marriage Story” — A Divorce From Hell

November 18, 2019
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What makes Marriage Story unbalanced and faintly dishonest is that we end up rooting for the clueless male egomaniac.

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New York Film Festival 2023: “The Zone of Interest” — An Essential Experience

October 12, 2023
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“The Zone of Interest” is a cinematic embodiment of Hannah Arendt’s famous phrase “the banality of evil.”

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Book Review: “The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan and Ivana” — A Caribbean Hamlet

May 17, 2020
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Told from the perspective of the Global South, this novel enthralls as it explores the urgent economic and cultural contradictions of post-colonialism, globalization, class, and alienation.

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Classical Music Interview: Amelia LeClair of Cappella Clausura — Conductor and Detective

April 3, 2013
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“Once people hear this music they do indeed come back for it – it is pleasing on so many levels: it soars, it soothes, it excites, it transports.”

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Visual Arts Review: Ogunquit Museum of American Art

August 4, 2018
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You will leave the museum stimulated by its provocative presentations of paint, photography, video, and words.

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