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AT THE TRIPLEX: The movies you have missed

November 17 marked The Triplex’s first anniversary since reopening, and as we head into 2025, we will be looking back at the movies, events, and moments that made for a remarkable year at The Triplex.

Review II: Henry IV (and IV) — Entertaining, not insightful

Epstein is good at telling a dramatic story well. However, he forgets that the plays of Shakespeare are not about the stories alone but about the inner truths discovered by the characters.

At Tanglewood: Ballet, vignettes, concertos and ‘symphonies’

I have always suffered from lack of skill in the management of form. Only persistent labor has at last permitted me to achieve a form that in some degree corresponds to the content. -- Pyotr Ilich Tchaikovsky

Review: At the Unicorn, Noel Coward’s ‘Design for Living’ lacks sophistication

The biggest problem here is the relative ages of the players. They are just too young and too inexperienced.

The banana at Tanglewood

“A banana? What kind of a banana?” “I can’t explain it. It’s a banana. It’s the only banana at Tanglewood."

Letter from Paris

The possibility of having the time of your Afterlife in Paris is greatly enhanced by the fact that the dead here are taken as seriously as the living.

‘Tomorrow in the Battle’: A spark igniter at Stageworks/Hudson

'These three characters, these people, are really alive in our times, and the situation is vibrant.' -- Laura Margolis, founding artistic director, Stageworks/Hudson

Tanglewood: Hard-strung Schumann, sensitive Beethoven, disappointing Mozart

If the BSO really wants to appear more open and accessible to its audience, it should try a heavily reduced-price Shed ticket program for young people and students.

Review: ‘A Number,’ Churchill’s riddle of identical identities

This is a very honest play about lying, liars and lies themselves.

Tip-Top Tapping at Jacob’s Pillow: Dorrance Dance’s World Premiere of ETM: The Initial Approach

These are dancers who are musicians with their bodies, head to toe. -- Ella Baff, artistic and executive director of Jacob's Pillow

Review: Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare in the open air

This is such a fun afternoon theater experience that even though the ultimate trio of deaths is tragic and moving, that is not a downer in this production. This show is too much fun to miss.

Review: ‘Cedars,’ a work-in-progress at Berkshire Theatre Festival

This is the best production I can imagine of Erik Tarloff's play in its current form.

Mozart, Mahler, Mendelssohn, then Montero, at Tanglewood

Gabriela Montero’s playing seems as spontaneous as if the notes of Rachmaninoff's second piano concerto were the sparks of her own genius.

Theater review: ‘Golem of Havana’ not ready for primetime — yet

This show at Barrington Stage has great potential. I enjoyed it and would gladly see new editions of it as it grows. I hope it grows.

I think my Blue Neighbor is screaming

A poem by Matt Whalan, with an illustration by Alison Lee, about a particular terror in Housatonic.

Review: ‘Julius Caesar,’ a play for our blood-dimmed times

It's a great play. Filled with action and philosophy this theatrical expression of a man's difficulties, regrets and resolutions is wildly entertaining

Baritone Thomas Hampson reveals the glories of 19th century lieder

Your reviewer’s words, nor any critic’s for that matter, cannot sufficiently describe the intimate sharing of a lieder concert, much less an extraordinary one like this.