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Extraordinary Measures

Film

Extraordinary Measures

A film adapted from a book by Geeta Anand, a biotechnology executive whose two youngest children are afflicted with disease raises money for a research scientist to develop a drug to save his children's lives.

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Crazy Heart

Film

Crazy Heart

In Crazy Heart, Bad Blake, a down-and-out country music singer and songwriter attempts to turn his life around soon after starting a new relationship with Jean, a young journalist. Now playing.

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The Four of Us

Theatre

The Four of Us

The Four of Us is a comic drama about two aspiring writers in pursuit of money, fame and success, and the stress put on their friendship. At the Theater J through February 21, 2010.

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Screenshot from January 2010 Around Town film review of Lovely Bones.

Film

The Lovely Bones

Based on the best-selling novel by Alice Sebold, “The Lovely Bones” centers on Susie Salmon who was murdered and now watches over her family from heaven.

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Screenshot from January 2010 Around Town Art review of Terra Cotte Warriors exhibit at the National Geographic Museum.

Art

Terra Cotta Warriors

Nearly 2,000 years ago, thousands of life-size clay figures were buried in massive underground pits to accompany China's first emperor, Qin Shihuangdi, into the afterlife. Their discovery outside the city of Xi'an in 1974 is one of the greatest archaeological finds of the 20th century.

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Screenshot from January 2010 Around Town Theatre review of Last Cargo Cult at Woolly Mammoth.

Theatre

Last Cargo Cult

Trey Graham reviews Mike Daisey's latest show at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, which weaves a meditation on last year's financial crisis and the global financial system together with the tale of his trip to "a place beyond the reach of money."

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Screenshot from January 2010 Around Town Theatrer eview of Stick Fly at Arena Stage.

Theatre

Stick Fly

Jane Horwitz reviews this Arena Stage production, directed by Kenny Leon, which explores the complex dynamics of an upper-class African American family summering on Martha’s Vineyard -- a rarely explored slice of American life.

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Screenshot from December 2009 Around Town Theatre review of Show Boat.

Theatre

Show Boat

Trey Graham and Paul Bachmann discuss a new production in which Signature Theater reinvents the classic 1927 musical about three decades on the Mississippi River.

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Screenshot from December 2009 Around Town Theatre review of The Fantasticks

Theatre

The Fantasticks

Trey Graham and Jane Horwitz review this new Arena Stage production in which an abandoned amusement park comes alive with love and magic.

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Screenshot from December 2009 Around Town Theatre review of Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind.

Theatre

Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind

Trey Graham gives an enthusiastic review of this production at Woolly Mammoth in which the cast tries to perform 30 short plays in an hour.

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Screenshot from December 2009 Around Town Film review of movies during the holiday season.

Film

Holiday Film Guide

Tim Gordon and Joe Barber roundup the films playing in the theaters this holiday season.

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Screenshot from December 2009 Around Town Film review of The Young Victoria.

Film

The Young Victoria

Jane Horwitz discusses this an old-fashioned costume drama about Britain’s Queen Victoria in her earliest days as sovereign.

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