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'The State We're In: Maine Stories' by Ann Beattie
Modern relationships
John Updike surely would have approved of Ann Beattie's pitch-perfect dialogue and her descriptions of the things we all define our existences by in her first collection of short stories in a decade.
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Tarantulas: Alive and Up Close at the Academy of Natural Sciences
Tarantulas on their own terms (or not)
A new exhibit on the spiders of our nightmares avoids some of the hairiest questions of nature and human beings. Is there a reason to value these beasts for their own sake?
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A world premiere of 'Empty the House'
Secrets and regrets
Empty the House, a world-premiere opera composed by a Curtis Institute student, reveals the intimate secrets of a family.
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Steve McCurry: India at the Rubin Museum of Art
Looking the world in the eye
Steve McCurry gives us unexpected glimpses of unguarded moments in India, urban and rural. His photographs are all about people, directly or indirectly.
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Toshiki Okada’s 'God Bless Baseball' at FringeArts
The great Korean-Japanese pastime
Toshiki Okada’s God Bless Baseball is confusing and slow-paced — kind of like baseball itself, for those benighted souls who don’t appreciate the game.
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'Oscar Wilde: From the Depths' at the Lantern (second review)
Oscar Wilde: Bon vivant or tragic hero?
Thanks to social media and a celebrity-obsessed culture, today’s iconic personages manage to transcend their peccadillos, and sometimes even their crimes, to stay relevant and bankable. Oscar Wilde, though, is relegated to a historical question mark about why he seems to have played a part in his own destruction.
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'Oscar Wilde: From the Depths' at the Lantern (first review)
A man untransformed
Author Charles McMahon missed the opportunity of exploring Oscar Wilde’s spiritual life in the new Lantern production about the playwright.
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Orchestra's Vienna Festival: Haydn and Bruckner
New takes on old favorites
Despite a tendency to equate loud with exciting, Nézet-Séguin captivated a small but feisty audience with interpretations of Haydn and Bruckner that were sonorous, nuanced, and fervent.
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Anthony McGill with the Musicians from Marlboro
Clarinet plus three and four
The New York Philharmonic’s splendid first desk clarinetist, Anthony McGill, joined Musicians from Marlboro in a recital highlighting two masterworks of the clarinet chamber literature, the Brahms Quintet and Krzysztof Penderecki’s beautifully grieving Clarinet Quartet.
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Curtis presents Eric Owens and Friends
The intimate joys of nuance and finesse
A major star showed how to blend harmoniously with other singers when Eric Owens appeared with current students at his alma mater.
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