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...essentially Fight Club without Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, David Fincher or any pretense of artistry or ambiguity. Fighting is to Fight Club what its star Channing Tatum's one previous hit, the 2006 Step Up, was to every poor-boy-with-a-dream dance movie before it, from Saturday Night Fever to Save the Last Dance - which is to say, a worn retread, but with more bare-knuckle brawls. No matter: young guys' collective movie memory can be counted in the months; or maybe, like most everyone, they just like to see the same stories with different faces. Exceeding most...
...tattered, plastic body parts hanging over the set, but its intense focus on personal suffering rather than a macro-overview of a historical event.“Trojan Barbie”—which had its world premiere at the American Repertory Theatre on Saturday, March 28—follows Lotte, a British doll repair-woman, who goes on vacation in modern Troy. There, she stumbles into calamity, finding herself in an all-female concentration camp where rape is rampant and death, inevitable. At the camp, she meets several broken Trojan women, including Hecuba, who finds her family growing...
...Five” list of American orchestras for over a century. The iconic performing arts institution, which routinely skims the international arts circuit for Symphony Hall recruits, is not afraid to showcase established artists and promising new talent on the same stage. This past Saturday, music director James Levine hedged a program of eclectic music from four countries on the shoulders of young Korean conductor Shi-Yeon Sung, who recently became one of two assistant conductors of the BSO. Save for an electrifying rendition of Bela Bartok’s suite from “The Miraculous Mandarin...
...prefrosh! As this uncharacteristically gorgeous Saturday afternoon winds down, you’re probably wondering what you should do on your first night at Harvard. Should you follow your new prefrosh bffs to Eleganza? Should you drunkenly explore upperclassmen room parties? (Not that FlyBy is suggesting this, unless you’re an international and/or preternaturally old prefrosh.) Or should you forget Harvard Yard altogether and instead venture into Boston (something that we wish we did more often...
...Served as concertmaster/mistress for your state’s youth orchestra, put some swing in your Saturday night with Classics and Swing: Music of American Composers (Lowell Lecture Hall, 8 p.m., free for prefrosh). Or try to get student rush tickets to the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra’s performance tonight (Jordan Hall in Boston, 6:45 p.m. for pre-concert talk, $8 with high school/college ID). Click here for more info...