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film
J. R. R. Tolkien gets the anime treatment
Mansi spends her nights counting moths in North East India
new music
Noise veterans deck the halls with feedback and dry ice
Estonian electronica duo enter a domain where nothing is explicit
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classical
Young quintet dazzle with their technical accomplishment and easy charm
New chief conductor turns Tchaikovsky waltz king, and a Rachmaninov partnership flows
opera
Puccini's 100th anniversary celebrated in style
Teamwork to the fore in a multi-credit operatic comedy
theatre
Director Patrick Marber does Mel Brooks's 1967 musical proud
This psychedelic mashup conveys a sci-fi-style alternate reality
Songs and sweeties, but insufficient sourness and sadism for fans of fairytales
dance
The basics of Streatfeild's original aren't lost in this bold, inventive production
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comedy
Texan's full-length debut is a personal story
Books
Fragments cohere in this dog-eared history of an itinerant life
Beautiful books take you to worlds that are intricately imagined and a feast for the eye
visual arts
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