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Joshua Sobol isn't interested in exploring dramatic possibilities but making sure his equation about the inevitable mechanics of violence work out.
Director Ellie Heyman and her talented cast have their hands full with this new work because it is, in some ways, a tale of two musicals
Singer Allan Harris clearly loves Eddie Jefferson's music and performs it with sincerity and chops.
Writer-director Michael Pearce’s debut feature is self-assured and finely-wrought. Beast written and directed by Michael Pearce. Screening at Kendall Square Cinema, Coolidge Corner The…
Until recently, the Museum of Fine Arts has ignored Boston's artists of Jewish heritage.
Do these "four late nineteenth-century visionaries" still speak to us?
The music and performances on this delightful trio album are blithe and profound, a combination that should charm many listeners.
Going beyond the reasonable concept, there was the New York Theatre Ballet's performance.
For my taste, some of the songs on Kurt Elling's The Questions simply aren't challenging or interesting enough.
The BLO's production was one of the troupe's true staging triumphs of late, transforming the Steriti Ice Rink into a 1950s-style nightclub.
Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual arts, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.
What was the influence of Western modernist imperatives on an art-making culture far removed from Europe and the US?
A visionary 'Paper Architect' who influenced popular culture as well as a generation of architects.
Andrew Manze and the RLPO have turned in one of the year's great albums: potent, lyrical, haunting, and timely.
Two recommended discs: James Brawn's complete Beethoven piano sonata series continues while Simone Dinnerstein and A Far Cry execute Philip Glass's chorale-like writing with remarkable ferve…
Jesse Colin Young's best material is worthy of favorable comparisons to Tom Rush, Gordon Lightfoot, and the unrelated Neil Young.
The mainstream country trappings of the Oak Ridge Boys have obscured their crowning achievement: they helped bring the white gospel quartet tradition to the pop charts.
As long as we're sipping the truth serum wine, the biggest obstacle presented by the Storm Warnings Repertory Theatre production is -- itself.
Kevin Leong is unquestionably an inspired choice to lead this chorus.
A listener's response to this album would largely depend on whether or not the sound of Jeff Denson's voice and the instrumentation strike a chord.
Even after decades, The Damned is still grandly flying its freak flag.
In a culture that seems hell-bent on distracting us from painful realities, the intimacy of this production comes off as redemptive and inspiring.
Sleeping Beauty needs not only to thrill us but to carry us somewhere back into its own history.
Hunting the Truth is a handbook on how to become an effective activist and an exciting, often awe-inspiring read.
"It seemed worthwhile to me to think about how the spiritual currents Billie Holiday navigated might have shaped her life and her sound and what she and others made of them."
