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March 17, 2023 by admin Leave a Comment

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Film (2023)
Directed by Vasilis Katsoupis
Screenplay by Ben Hopkins
Based on an idea by Vasilis Katsoupis

With Willem Dafoe
Reviewed by Tim Jackson
A high class art thief gets inadvertently locked inside in a fancy New York apartment after things go awry and is put to the test in order to survive.

The Wife of Willesden

March 2, 2023 by admin Leave a Comment

The Wife of Willesden

Play (2023)
Adapted by Zadie Smith
From The Wife of Bath by Geoffrey Chaucer
Directed by Indhu Rubasingham
A Kiln Theatre Production
American Repertory Theater
February 25 – March 17, 2023

A plausible, sometimes lively, adaptation of the famous Chaucer tale transposed into the modern era, with the internal tale itself moved from England to Jamaica.

Fairview

February 26, 2023 by admin Leave a Comment

Cast

Play (2019)
by Jackie Sibblies Drury
Directed by Pascale Florestal
Speakeasy Stage Company
Boston Center for the Arts
South End, Boston
February 17 – March 11, 2023

More of a theater event than a play per se, an unsettling reflection on racism that starts with a domestic comedy and takes off from there.

Jonathan Wilson, author of the new novel “The Red Balcony”

February 20, 2023 by admin Leave a Comment

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Interview
A recent interview with the author of a new novel, set in Palestine under the British Mandate in 1933, about the assassination of Haim Arlosoroff, a young Jew who worked out a deal with the Nazis to release Jews from Germany to Palestine.

What Makes It Great: with Rob Kapilow
Copland’s Appalachian Spring

February 5, 2023 by admin Leave a Comment

Copland 1942

Concert, Lecture
Copland’s Appalachian Spring:
Rob Kapilow, commentary
Celebrity Series of Boston
A Far Cry, chamber orchestra
February 5, 2023, 3pm
Jordan Hall
Symphony Hall area, Boston

A fascinating analysis, with live illustrations, of the great twentieth century composition, followed by a superb execution of the original chamber version by the inimitable A Far Cry.

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