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As readers know, a thread of melancholy runs through Tolkien's masterwork, deepening and informing his achievement. It should, by rights, have its place in any depiction of his life.
The pos…
This month focuses on contemporary country-rap. It's high time we take note of a fledgling genre on the verge of mass popularity.
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Cry It Out is a well-done dramedy that suggests that we try harder to let life's sweet moments linger.
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The perversity of The Handmaid's Tale oppressive allegory lends itself well to opera, and Boston Lyric Opera makes the most of the emotional heights and depths.
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By Neil Giordano Zhang Yimou's return to form is a story of doubles, duplicity " and zithers. Shadow, directed by Zhang Yimou. Screening at Kendall Square Cinema, Cambridge, MA. If Chinese m…
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The White Crow, wisely, offers up no easy answers regarding why Rudolf Nureyev defected.
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"I saw it coming three years ago, when there was a frenzy of development in the Fenway. Now the neighborhood looks like a corporate mall."
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A landmark concert from 1992 is a chance to rediscover Betty Carter's greatness, to appreciate again how this artist was special to the very essence of her soul.
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HBO'S Barry has finally started to hit its stride as a mirthfully dark comedy/drama.
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School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play is a serious comedy that takes aim at our provinciality and ignorance.
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Bolden is an intense film, depicting a life lived in a horrifically racist time and place.
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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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In the case of a scene set in the Lodz Ghetto, the lineup of characters on the way to the concentration camps veered, for me, close to Holocaust porn.
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The music Nick Waterhouse performs (almost all of which he writes) is consistently retro"not to mention relentlessly danceable and fun.
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Indecent is a play of contrasts: piety versus blasphemy, joy versus heartbreak.
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The final two concerts of the BSO's season were in the orchestra's sweet spot.
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This evening is a revelatory experience on race relations, with grief, rage, and the whole business of hope and change.
The post Theater Review: "Caroline, or Change" " In Purgatory, All So…
These exhibitions present two very different ways of engaging with gender, both raising the question of gaze.
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"Forgiveness is the key and love is the answer… Have a good Jazz Fest, but also have a good life."
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James Graham's new play almost evokes sympathy for the devil. Almost.
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Two autobiographies by women who had some experience in legitimate theater, but they each gave their strongest allegiance to dance, specifically one choreographer.
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Once much-performed, then banished from the stage by the Nazis, this is a fine new recording of an opera by the man who would become one of Hollywood's leading composers.
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Is it all, from here on out, to be about Daenerys v. John Snow for the Iron Throne?
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As Zeitgeist Stage Company closes its doors, it's hard not to wonder, with some bitterness, what our plucky local small-scale theater troupes would be able to accomplish if they had the reso…
