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A Far Cry's youthful exuberance is no doubt one of the most important keys to its egalitarian vision, but a good share of the credit is due to intelligence, vision, and carefully-honed and f…
All in all an inspiring evening; we need new works to continue to expand our ears' ability to capture new sounds.
The quality varies at the TWTF, but here is a chance to become aware of rarely done Williams plays. And if a production does not measure up to one's expectations, the effort will inspire a f…
"Next Fall" is so anxious not to polarize or offend that it ends up as little more than well-meaning. Something serious seems to be happening on stage, but for all intents and purposes the c…
Comparing Rick Berry's paintings with Damon Lehrer's exquisitely rendered, classical and contemplative work made me wonder about the expressionist style in general. By this I mean that artis…
In this delightful production of "Candide," director Mary Zimmerman imaginatively reworks and mischievously augments the musical. Her deliciously blowzy approach embraces, with charming lyri…
Goldoni's popularity is based on fast-paced plots, not poetic dialogue, depth of characterization, or philosophical content. While playwright Bean hews closely to the storyline of the origin…
The Lexington Symphony is a far more professional orchestra than the typical community orchestras around Boston (Newton Symphony, Waltham Symphony, Brookline Symphony, the Longwood Symphony)…
The audience, seated at tables in semi-darkness, responded to TV talk-show style questions. At first, we raised our hands to vote on generic, consensus-building questions: Who believes in p…
The astonishing exhibition "Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge" has the strange beauty and density of a scientific diagram or star chart. You can't examine it deeply all at once. It is best…
In "Drive," director Nicolas Winding Refn crafts a cool, tight and stylish film that gets away with a lot. He managed to make a movie that works as some kind of bizarre but wonderful Michael…
"The Lady With All the Answers" presents the columnist Ann Landers as a person who just might write a letter to Ann herself. Her faith in herself and her work is unquestioned, even as her ow…
Galeet Dardashti is a trailblazing musician: she is the first woman in her celebrated family to perform Persian Jewish music
Despite its serious script and premise, "Contagion" is somehow able to retain a subtle element of "fun," an at least marginal feat for a movie in which scores of people die in nearly every s…
The beginning of a not-bad fall film season in New England, with some Woody Allen classics, an Iranian melodrama among the youth set, an appearance by a legendary Japanese experimental film …
Each of the paintings in Anne Leone's Cenote Series shows the water's surface, always from below. The world of air is invisible to us, off limits, mysterious. This membrane between worlds ap…
The Tanglewood team of Morgan Freeman, Gil Shaham, and John Williams served up an evening of memorable performances of music from the movies.
For French writer Pierre-Albert Jourdan, paradox and its close kin aphorism were ways to approach the ineffable, the infinite, the immanent, and above all the state of unity between self and…
What could have been a readable, informative, pleasurable book that would, much like Woody Allen's recent film MIDNIGHT IN PARIS, enhance our experience of some of the modernist figures we a…
Narrative holes and esoteric tendencies aside, SENNA is remarkable for its feat of compiling what must have been hundreds if not thousands of hours of Formula One footage. The film is surpri…
