121 stories by "Debra Cash"
An informed lineup of dance performances -- large and small -- Nutcracker and non-Nutcracker -- for the holidays.
If you know Swan Lake, there will be few structural surprises. Girl turned into swan, prince falls in love, prince gets fooled, they both feel really terrible, and die.
Isango's Magic Flute/ Impempe Yomlingo is lit by flashes of brilliance. Most can be traced directly to Mandisi Dyantyis' reorchestration of Mozart's orchestral score for an ensemble of marim…
Here's a modest proposal. Let's invent a Boston arts tasting menu.
One of the reasons audiences and funders love Kyle Abraham's work is that the layered landscapes of his dances resonate with the fraught conditions outside the theatre.
After a 35+ year run, writers for the paper learned today that the Providence Phoenix will be shutting its doors after next week's issue.
To my mind, with Assembly of the Souls, composer Eitan Steinberg is working in Pulitzer contention territory.
On September 21, giant author puppets will be on parade in Mansfield, CT.
The centennial of the author of Make Way For Ducklings is being celebrated with a series of lectures by scholar Leonard S. Marcus.
It's important for there to be funds, curators, institutions, and audiences for art that can speak truth to power in unconstrained ways.
The pleasures of Joni Mitchell: In Her Own Words are the pleasures of being a fly on the wall.
Doug Elkins' take on Othello is entirely of our era, when domestic abuse is finally a public discussion and a complex story of betrayal can be conveyed with pop culture efficiency.
There is now an online "sonic census" of puppetry in the greater Boston area.
Rebecca's spirit will persist in every artist who remembers how much she believed in them, every organization that she urged to greater risk-taking and optimism for the future, and every fri…
In red gloves and dark glasses, popping and locking, the Wondertwins are both imposing humans and robotic objects, organic and mechanical reproduction.
Rufus Wainwright is like that: unfiltered family love and dysfunction threaded through whammo pop tunes wrapped in the sequins of more than a little clear-to-those-who-know celebrity.
Mark Morris' choreography for his 18-member ensemble alternates between joyful ring-around-the-rosy and contra dance circles.
This is what I call an example of a critic making an impact!
Carrying cacti around the stage in boxes and placing them on their heads and in predictably suggestive positions, the Boston Ballet dancers looked like they were having a blast
Fred Turner's counterintuitive and subtle argument in The Democratic Surround draws a direct line between the design of museum exhibitions and the Be-Ins of the Summer of Love.
Artists, Writers, Thinkers, Dreamers: Portraits of 50 Famous Folks & All Their Weird Stuff is a weird cartoon bait-and-switch.
Comic genres don't die; they just become niche markets.
British Pathe's 85,000 (some sites say 90,000, but who's counting?) newsreels are now online.
"Falling Out of Time" is a book that gives all the truth that Israeli writer David Grossman can deliver, and far more intimacy than we strangers who are his readers have earned.
Israel's Nalaga'at Theater Deaf-Blind Acting Ensemble, whose name translates to "Do Touch," is on a U.S. tour that included a side visit to the White House.
