Theater Review: "Delicate Particle Logic" " History, Re-voiced
Some may find the Lise Meitner's's story cathartic, others may think it is frustratingly familiar.
Some may find the Lise Meitner's's story cathartic, others may think it is frustratingly familiar.
Violinist Viktoria Mullova supplies one of the year's most programmatically-cohesive and thoughtfully-executed albums.
The twelve stories in this collection are set in radically different places, use multiple forms, and reflect varying levels of political engagement.
A handpicked list of cinematic horror gems for you to watch over the next 26 days.
One of Barry's strongest attributes is its brand of dark, surreal, and unexpectedly witty satire.
What wasn't there to love about 20th-century music on a night like this? In a word, nothing.
Jazz band Dirigo Rataplan explores what could be described as 'chamber expressionism.'
There can be no future, Héctor Abad seems to be arguing, when everything you are is hidden away in a time you can never fully know.
MASSOpera opened their season with a workshop of a new opera, something they've never done before.
A comedy about slavery poses considerable challenges in our #blacklivesmatter times, but the characters bounce gleefully through endless rounds of verbal sparring.
The old questions, good as they are, are going to be augmented with new ones: Are we creating a world worth living in? Are we creating a world we can continue to live in?
In all of his books, John Julius Norwich remembered that history is a story.
Derrick Wang's Scalia/Ginsburg is a three character comic opera that combines elements of Jean-Paul Sartre's No Exit and Perry Mason.
One of the fears of poets and, I imagine, all writers, is that you'll reach a certain age and you'll run out of gas.
Time For Romance: But Beautiful may qualify -- if I can even use the term now -- as seduction music.
To an extent, The Niceties does probe a fault line between the Democratic Party and the left: a boundary that will rupture sooner rather than later.
This is an opportunity to take in the early stirrings of Tennessee Williams' talent as a playwright.
For most of its history, jazz has been a macho culture. Sexual ambiguity or gay-ness were subjects of derision.
Ethan Hawke's goal as an artist is to connect meaningfully with the world -- avoiding artifice is essential in terms of his acting, directing, and writing.
His beautiful sound is undimmed by time, his sensitivity to nuance is intact, and his choice of virtuoso partners was a delight.
Not all of the production's choices pay off, but Hamnet is a fascinating, one-of-a-kind play that strikes at a universal sense of longing.
If Charlie Harmon's story jumps around a bit and reads rather like a series of diary entries, it's at the very least engaging and, for the most part, entertaining.
While Beth Genné proffers a terrific take on dance and its social context, she exhibits a shaky grasp of musical-theater history.
We need a satire that takes Trump's radical threat more seriously than Vicuña.
All of Shirkers demonstrates the wonderfulness of making cinema. I Am Not a Witch dramatizes the mystery and solidarity of accused witches.