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David Treuer's expansive new history of native America from 1890 to the present looks with skeptical, Indian eyes from inside simplistic American symbols and narratives.
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This album led me to choose, for a summer project, to listen to all of the music of JanáÄek -- and it has been a complete delight
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The touring company of Dear Evan Hansen is every bit as good as its Broadway counterpart.
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Selling Kabul poses many questions from the point of view of people seldom represented on the American stage.
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.
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When he is at his best, few can match Renoir's charm and popular appeal.
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Under the Silver Lake would be infuriating were its Charlie Kaufman-inspired adventures not so entertaining.
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This year's Montreal Jazz Festival Festival would have been more successful had it not been for all the construction ripping apart the city.
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If you enjoy singing and dancing in your theater seat to the sound of good music while learning a bit about American cultural history and its personalities, you will enjoy this show.
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This is a perfect guilty pleasure, an old fashion B-movie without a franchise, explosions, overly recognizable actors, or exhausting mano a mano violence.
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Despite Dark's complicated structure, the characters are motivated by utterly realistic desires and emotions, which balance the show's more abstract elements.
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This world-premiere recording of the 1826 Paris version of Gaspare Spontini's Olimpie makes a powerful case for a composer much admired in his own day.
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The Rolling Stones were still up there, sounding vital, and that alone delivered satisfaction.
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A sense of promise remains a hallmark of the Montreal Jazz Festival -- always end by looking forward. Â
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To see Raisin in the Sun in post-Obama America is to experience how a classic both remains emblematic of its time and changes resonance as time passes
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Saturday's performance made up for a rain delay withthe longest single set since the band's millennium-greeting Everglades marathon.
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"Porches are loosely defined. Our stages include stoops, yards, and driveways, as well as churches, community centers, affordable housing, and elderly housing."
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Opening on July 4, at a moment when immigrants and their living conditions are once again in the forefront of the news, Now Circa Then is an inspired choice.
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The Montreal Jazz Festival is overwhelming in a way, but somehow genial, and finally inspiring.
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In Extremis is required reading not only for anyone interested in war, but for anyone interested in how an unusual woman makes her way in the world.
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We welcome community organizer and children's books writer Jacob Kramer to talk about breaking the rules. His work infuses revolutionary thought with childlike wonder, encouraging readers of…
I happily read The Earth Dies Screaming through, all 433 pages of acute, often brilliant writing. And also often funny as hell.
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In two short acts, playwright Win Wells depicts not so much a relationship as a fusion, a merging of identities into one single, complex personality.
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Here's a list of five June releases that are making major waves on the Pop scene.
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My tastes have always been everywhere and all over, whatever the time of year. But there is a seasonal connection for me " some books, movies, and music are inseparable from the season in wh…
