Review
Two autobiographies by women who had some experience in legitimate theater, but they each gave their strongest allegiance to dance, specifically one choreographer.
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Once much-performed, then banished from the stage by the Nazis, The Miracle of Heliane, now available in a fine new recording, is perhaps the best opera by the man who would become one of Hollywood’s leading composers.
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Is it all, from here on out, to be about Daenerys v. John Snow for the Iron Throne?
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As Zeitgeist Stage Company closes its doors, it’s hard not to wonder, with some bitterness, what our plucky local small-scale theater troupes would be able to accomplish if they had the resources they need.
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John Hersey emerges in this book as a disciplined journalist who held steadfast to an admirably singular goal.
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This performance of Ives’ Third was the most welcome entry in the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra’s celebratory season – a beautifully considered, powerfully rendered account of this too-neglected score.
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This memoir offers an invaluable, broad look at intellectual Russia before and after the revolutions of 1917.
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Beetlejuice may not be the blockbuster its creators are hoping for, but it is occasionally humorous and rarely dull.
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Award-winning author and critic Fiona MacCarthy is out to change wrong-headed perceptions of Walter Gropius in her biography. And she succeeds.
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Desires will surely solidify ORA Singers’ reputation as a first-class choral ensemble.
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