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Monday, June 9, 2025

More on the Broadway Musical Season: Dead Outlaw, Buena Vista Social Club and Just in Time

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Andrew Durand (left) and Company in Dead Outlaw . (Photo: Matthew Murphy.) The general complaint about Broadway musicals in the twenty-first...
Friday, June 6, 2025

Guillaume Côté’s Adieu: A Daring Farewell at the National Ballet of Canada

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Guillaume Côté in Grand Mirage . (Photo: Karolina Kuras.) After 26 years at the National Ballet of Canada, Guillaume Côté could have chosen ...
Sunday, May 25, 2025

Life is a Game of Go: The Enigmatic Literature of Yoko Tawada

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(New Directions.) “It is the second job of literature to create myth. But its first job is to destroy it.” --Kenzaburo Oe Yoko Tawada’s beau...
Tuesday, May 20, 2025

The Extraordinary Adam Guettel: The Light in the Piazza at The Huntington and Floyd Collins on Broadway

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Emily Skinner in The Huntington Theatre's The Light in the Piazza . (Photo: Julieta Cervantes.) The new Huntington Theatre mounting of T...
Wednesday, May 7, 2025

Confusion of Purpose: Branden Jacob-Jenkins' Pulitzer Prize-Winning New Play

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Jon Michael Hill and Harry Lennix in Purpose . (Photo: Marc J. Franklin.) I’m a fan of the African-American playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkin...
Tuesday, May 6, 2025

The Beat Goes On: The Yardbirds Chart the Course

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“1966 was the high point of British pop art, and with hits like The Yardbirds’ 'Shapes of Things,' there was an incredible compressi...
Monday, April 28, 2025

A Baroque Drama of Biblical Proportions: Opera Atelier’s David and Jonathan

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The artists of Atelier Ballet in Opera Atelier's production of Charpentier's David and Jonathan . (Photo: Bruce Zinger.) Opera Ateli...