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Entertaining and provocative, this quick-witted and dreamlike evening of theater suggests that imbalances of power sacrifice individual freedoms and love. Everyone becomes a doll (either mas…
The year is 1966, and the world is still in Technicolor even if the nuns are in black-and-white in "The Divine Angel."
After intermission, Mr. Lang closed the concert with Frederic Chopin's Twelve Etudes (Op. 25). This is music in which Mr. Lang is completely in his element, and his performance of these fear…
Not only is TAPFS considered the best Pink Floyd tribute band, but it is argued that they are the best cover band in the world.
What makes one opinion better than another? (Some opinions have been challenged more than others. Tested opinions are worth more than untested ones.) Can't one enjoy an aesthetic experience …
National Theatre director Bijan Sheibani chose artistry of movement, beautiful as it is, over the battering belittlement of really hard, unappreciated work, the facts of sweat and stupor.
Given his full-throttle depiction of the myopia of middle class mores, Bruce Norris is more in the flamboyant satiric line of Sinclair Lewis, who also trained his sharp ear and eye on the Mi…
In the coming week there will be screenings of a variety of horror films from over the decades -- you choose how you want your spine tingled. And don't forget to dress up
Portugal. The Man is nothing if not a paradox -- the band is nostalgically avant-garde.
As one of the most highly esteemed countertenors in the opera world today, Andreas Scholl did not disappoint, but radiated confidence and sincerity in his interpretations of some of Purcell'…
Throughout his career, conductor Kurt Masur has focused primarily on conducting the standard German repertoire, and now, at age 84, his mastery and understanding of this music is unmatched.
Michael Noone's understanding of the music's time period and the molding of an outstanding concert is not without precedent in the greater Boston area, but he contributes significantly to it…
"For an imaginative boy, the first experience of writing is like a tiger's first taste of blood.' -- H.G. Wells, "The New Machiavelli," 1911.
"Train Dreams" is an important little book, and Denis Johnson is an important big writer, and I hate to think of a time when he and a few others like him will not be there to protect us from…
John Coltrane was a mid-century genius of Modernism who masterfully synthesized the most important elements in both interconnected lines of descent: an African American tradition that stretc…
With “Reverse Threads,” Regina Carter moves beyond conventional boundaries, her music a rich blend of jazz and world music"a cross-cultural exploration of modern and traditional …
Despite some interpretive shortcomings, Sean Newhouse, the orchestra's 30-year-old assistant conductor has solid technique, and a major orchestra whose players, management, and audience beli…
In locales as varied as Israel, Kenya, Massachusetts, and the country of the brain, and in rough groupings of poems about small daily epiphanies, relationships, loss and death, and the sad a…
Ides of March" tells the same old political story: we know how tedious the campaign season is, we know that deals are made behind doors and that all that really matter are the numbers.
Traveling the world is satisfying, but no more so than journeys of the mind. The musical voyage I took with the Chiara Quartet was a trip worth savoring.
Audra McDonald is so popular on stage, in concert, and on television that she has become, to many, a one-name goddess like Bette, Judy, and Barbara. Judging from her recent star turn in the …
Leon Trotsky: A Revolutionary Life, by Joshua Rubenstein, Yale University Press, [] pages, $ by Harvey Blume Who was Leon Trotsky? Today, this is hardly the burning question it was when Jose…
New England theaters, and especially Boston's, have compiled a fantastic lineup of programs for October, a classically-great month for films (especially if horror is your thing).
Honestly, the first thought I had when the two-hour Wilco show wrapped up was, when will I see this band again?
"South Pacific" endures in this production (and will in others) because it centers on two love stories that are "lovely beyond description.
