Month: April 2012

Coming Attractions in Film: May 2012

April 30, 2012
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After catching your breath from a heavy dose of April film festivals, you may think you need a rest! While this month’s Boston area offerings may look tidy in number, they are sprawling in scope. April provided a look at what’s coming and current, but May is steeped in history and alternative cinema.

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Film Review: “The Kid With a Bike” — Journey to a State of Grace

April 28, 2012
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The Kid With a Bike is a story of grace, compassion, redemption, and of the possibility of goodness in a very difficult and imperfect world.

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Coming Attractions: Jazz Week 2012

April 27, 2012
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Jazz songs by composer John Harbison? An ensemble devoted to the music of Björk? A quartet taking over a theatre and breaking the “fourth wall”? Jazz Week 2012 stakes out territory on the permeable boundary where jazz encounters other genres and even other art forms.

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Book Review: The Adventurous Stories of Etgar Keret — Home Invasion, Israeli Style

April 27, 2012
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The stories of Israeli writer Etgar Keret are diverse, one-of-a-kind safety nets, spun out of humor, tenderness and wild imaginings.

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“Anti-Entropy and Uncle Order”: A Dispatch from William Kentridge’s Sixth Norton Lectures

April 27, 2012
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Over the past 6 weeks William Kentridge has shown the form of the lecture itself to be obsolete. But over the course of his returns to the podium, he has shown us that the lecture’s fate is not so dire as he had induced us —- for seventy minutes at a stretch -— to believe.

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Visual Arts: Conservation Conundrums

April 26, 2012
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Art conservation is a very pragmatic field, full of compromises.

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Coming Attractions in Underground Music: May 2012

April 26, 2012
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May brings a solid selection of shows. The highlights are definitely Pole, Black Dice and Grass Widow. Have fun out there!

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Dance Review — India Jazz Suites, Where Kathak and Tap Meet

April 25, 2012
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While jazz and classical Hindustani music, tap and kathak, share a number of striking elements, the collaboration presented in India Jazz Suites is not about “fusion.”

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Music Review: The Touré-Raichel Collective — Nothing If Not Surprising

April 24, 2012
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Between songs Touré and Raichel conferred inaudibly with one another, deciding which tune they would play next. There was very little chatting up the audience, until before the fourth song. Raichel said “Hello, Boston.” Touré asked, “How you doing?” and the audience roared.

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Theater Interview: Beau Jest Sets Up Shop on Tennessee Williams’ s “Ten Blocks on the Camino Real”

April 23, 2012
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It is important for audiences to go to Ten Blocks on the Camino Real with an open mind. Do not expect a play like The Glass Menagerie. Go to hear a youthful Tennessee Williams’s marvelously poetic voice soaring in an unbridled, expressionistic way.

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