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A trio of companies — Barrington Stage Company, Great Barrington Public Theater, and, to a lesser extent, Berkshire Theater Festival — draw on the stage’s power to address our current political emergencies.
Read More“The Lady With All the Answers” presents the columnist Ann Landers as a person who just might write a letter to Ann herself. Her faith in herself and her work is unquestioned, even as her own life takes a bump or two. Well, really, only one bump.
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Sometimes works that major artists withheld — like songs that are not deemed worthy of release —are best kept in the vaults.
Read MoreCritic David Thomson says the movies have profoundly shaped America, and not always for the better. “The Whole Equation: A History of Hollywood” by David Thomson. (Knopf) By Tim Riley The title of David Thomson’s provocative new history of film comes from a trenchant passage in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel “The Last Tycoon”: “You can…
Read MoreWe were surprised to come upon one of the last things you’d expect to find on the Outer Cape: a French bistro and boulangerie.
Read MoreGiven the country’s current existential crisis, this genre-bending, ambitious-to-the-max debut novel about an uprising in Puerto Rico comes at the perfect time.
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Let’s hope the exhibit inspires some critical thinking about the importance and fragility of democracy, both here and around the world.
Read MoreTwo 20th century gems bracketed the evening, and all four works showed how the ballet idiom can serve and be served by classical music.
Read MoreBob Dylan’s first installment of his memoirs invokes the bard of old with engaging prose and an old carny’s sleight of hand. “Chronicles, Volume I” By Bob Dylan. By Tim Riley Bob Dylan is one of rock’s great trapeze artists. His songwriting is the stuff of literary aerobics, but his performances could re-attach your spine…
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Visual Arts Commentary: Paying Attention to Boston’s Jewish Expressionists
Until recently, the Museum of Fine Arts has ignored Boston’s artists of Jewish heritage.
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