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"Red" is about creativity and destruction, Apollonian rigor and Dionysian instinct, fathers and sons, love and rejection, life and death.
"Red" is a drama about the modern artist and his place in art history: at the center is Mark Rothko's confrontation with fame and the commoditization of creativity in the contemporary art wo…
Green Mountain Project's performance was music making at its best, historically informed, musically revealing, and sensitively and energetically performed -- one could not ask for more.
While many critics decried 2011 as a musical wasteland, New England residents can allow auld acquaintance to be forgot in 2012 with the cornucopia of music that's coming to the Northeast. Wa…
This month and into February there is a treasure trove of rare treats and great opportunities to see all kinds of film around New England.
The extraordinary intensity the ensemble achieved at soft dynamic levels and their very natural sense of the movement's pacing were both quite impressive.
Now that the new year is here, midseason breaks are winding down, which makes it the perfect time to reflect on the television programs that premiered in the fall "- and will soon be back on…
Paul Goodman was a professed anarchist " not the bomb-throwing kind, who believe destruction is foreplay to solution, but the anti-violent kind, deriving from the nineteenth century Russian …
An underground academic critic explores the fascinating intersections between the Kardashian sisters' novel "Dollhouse" and Ibsen's play "A Doll House." The more things change ...
A Dangerous Method" fits neatly into director David Cronenberg's body of work, which is often obsessed with a body-mind connection
Boston Baroque closed out 2011 and began 2012 with an engaging program of pieces by Corelli, Handel, Bach, and Vivaldi that featured some rather unfamiliar instruments and repertoire. Martin…
Director Steve McQueen's skillful exploration of troubled human behavior and his use of New York as a psychological landscape make "Shame" off-putting to watch, while at the same time it dra…
Legendary soul and gospel diva Mavis Staples will 'take you there', into the New Year, at Symphony Hall (@ 9 p.m.) this Saturday, December 31th, marking the performer's First Night debut in …
The Chatham Chorale, judging from the Chamber Singers, has the potential to perform with excellence. But it must be demanded of them, which takes informed and determined direction.
"I considered it desirable that he should know nothing about me but it was even better if he knew several things which were quite wrong." ("The Third Policeman" by Flann O'Brien)
Mahmoud Darwish, who died in 2008 at the age of sixty-seven, was best and heroically known for his complex perspective on political and spiritual borders " as both a poet and a spokesman for…
As nicely played as the Mendelssohn and Tchaikovsky were, I left feeling that there was something distinctly anticlimactic about the Aviv Quartet's programming choices. I would much rather h…
The play does not address Hannah Arendt's rationalizations or the reasons for her dedication to Martin Heidegger, though the dramatist's title hints that it is the banal truth of the irratio…
What the few of us in Jordan Hall heard that night was a richly conceived and beautifully performed song cycle, mostly serious, but with some great wit in exactly the right places. It made f…
The superb Harvard University Choir, which is arguably one of the best ensembles of its kind in the country, was in fine form throughout the evening.
In "Three Pianos," three young actor-musicians unite in their irreverent passion for the music of Franz Schubert.
"High"'s set-up is simple enough -- three characters with billboard-sized guilt complexes collide.
Playwright John Hodge chooses to ignore the complexity of the dissident writer's experience " expedience for the sake of protecting something of value from destruction, a writer fighting his…
Losing It" explores growing old through an assemblage of tales and lessons drawn from works of the past"the Icelandic Sagas, the classics, the Bible, the Torah"to which the author adds a ple…
All in all, this Boston Camerata concert featured fine musicianship, expertise in voice and every instrument, scholarly renditions of the scores and texts, and joyful music making.
