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Featuring seven short dances by stellar choreographers of contemporary dance, the Harvard Dance Center's spring program promised some rare enlightenment.
Two current productions make vivid cases for the strength of Canadian theater.
Those who want to experience the brilliance of Bertolt Brecht at its mellowest should head down to Yale Rep's lively and moving production of The Caucasian Chalk Circle.
For all the attention it receives and the level of cultural relevance it assumes House of Cards ought to be a much better series than its aggressive promotion makes it out to be.
"It takes a special choreographer to make audiences laugh, reflect, and empathize."
No disputing it " right now, Vijay Iyer is The Man on jazz piano.
Moses(es) has many layers of metaphor and suggestion, but the surface is always visually intriguing, musically imaginative
The pop magic that Belle and Sebastian excels at struggles to survive on the band's new album because its dance-heavy vibe plays against their strengths.
A trio of new novels suggest that bad as it gets may not be as bad as it can get.
There was more than one reference to Alvin Ailey himself in Odetta, recalling Ailey's frequent use of a female protagonist and his choices of other noted black artists as inspiration.
Boston was first introduced to ensemble taiko in 1975, when members of the Japanese group KodÅ crossed the finish line of the Boston Marathon and moments later performed.
The Golden Dragon Acrobats' Cirque ZÃva is part dance, part acrobatics, and 100 percent spectacle.
Each piece is so different from the others in Shades of Sound that the evening provides something for everyone, giving the company a chance to showcase its phenomenal technique.
Winter Sleep is not the cinematic masterpiece so many have been hailing it to be.
If these efforts are representative of Icelandic cinema, it is time for movie lovers to start paying much closer attention.
"The kids in Boston accepted us unconditionally, and we hung out with everyone out there"Barrence Whitfield, the Bristols, the Del Fuegos."
"Working on The Way We Live Now was a natural process of learning about modernist architecture and the dominating visions of figures such as Le Corbusier, Mies, and Adolf Loos."
Yazmina Reza's dollhouse of a novel is a miniaturist's miracle.
Rejecting unadorned box-like designs, Michael Graves created with patterns, textures, decorations and color in ways large and small.
One leaves History of Fear feeling that the director wants to stir up our anxiety about the omnipresence of fear itself.
Without being at all didactic, Michelle Dorrance reveres tap history by adapting traditional ideas, then resolving them unexpectedly.
Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, theater, music, dance, visual arts, and author events for the coming week.
In 1939, Clifford Odets wrote that 'we are living at a time when new art works should shoot bullets." Fat chance of any shots coming from our voluntarily disarmed theaters.
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask is the video game version of Groundhog's Day -- you're Bill Murray, and it's brilliant.
A graphic novel about the death of art and the art of death
