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None of the opera recording I have reviewed this past year beats this Cradle for dramatic vitality, musical imagination, and ongoing political relevance.
The success or failure of this show rests primarily on the physical presence, voice and acting of the actor playing the celebrated lyric tenor Roland Hayes.
Playful and political, eerie and goofy by turns, this exhibition brings together puppets, performing objects, masks, and puppet (and doll) performances on video.
Acclaimed playwright and screenwriter Michael Cristofer's script is very open about portraying Emile Griffith's sexuality.
Handel & Haydn Society's Haydn and Mozart is about as good as it gets; Martyn Brabbins' recording of a Sea Symphony is one of the year's best releases; and for elegance and technical co…
When Vermont's Mountain Man brings us its Appalachian vocal stylings the trio is venturing into the hollers of both the Green and the Blue Ridge Mountains.
This blistering new documentary manages to offer a fairly balanced portrait of a man who, at the end of his life, was widely demonized.
Pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet delivers some fine Mozart; conductor Hannu Lintu brings rhythmic energy and textural transparency to the music of Witold Lutoslawski; Ludovic Morlot and the Seat…
Shoplifters is a masterpiece about the underclass that effortlessly explores emotional complexity amid moral contradictions.
"Now I'm retired, but I still look forward to honoring the legacy of John Coltrane."
The vacuousness of the digital world and the mainstream media is an easy target.
Rams is a documentary film carefully crafted to be more than a biography of a great designer.
American String Quartet's disc features the premiere recording of Robert Sirota's String Quartet no. 2, American Pilgrimage.
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With two able bandmates, Fred Hersch is inspired to unwind a nice set of standards and a few originals.
Sophisticated Giant paints a convincing picture of an extremely charming, intelligent, resilient, and talented man.
I was excited, moved, impressed, and surprised by Handel & Haydn Society's performance of The Messiah under the exacting baton of Bernard Labadie.
Boston Dance Theater's four pieces seemed to counter female stereotypes but raised limited alternatives.
This is one of the year's most heartwarming films; not sentimental, but projecting a profound sense of resilient joy at its heart.
America the Farewell Tour and American Pyschosis are well worth taking to heart -- both to provide provocative perspective on what is happening and to spur us into action.
Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.
How will others in the Southern hip-hop scene react to this embrace of tradition by a Southern rapper with his feet firmly in the Gangsta Rap arena?
Kelly Green and her trio are essentially mainstream players, but they explore a lot of challenging territory within that framework.
When it comes to raising high spirits, the BEMF's delightful Alcina was an inspired choice.
The Other Side of the Wind may inspire brooding melancholy in some, but it's also pretty damned fine.
