Month: February 2014
A trio of superb off Broadway plays explore the complicated faces of love and lust — from the seamy to the sublime.
Read MoreIf calculating pi to a far-off-integer isn’t for you, TAO Dance Theater’s baffling kinetic exploits may seem less like an incredible journey than a trudge to a dead end.
Read MoreArts Fuse critics select the best in music, dance, film, and theater that’s coming up this week.
Read MoreAre the 16-year-olds in the deep South capable of such a challenging, cumbersome construction task? Especially with the school year coming close to an end?
Read MoreI had the opportunity to see two performances of Peter M. Floyd’s Absence at Boston Playwrights’ Theatre.
Read MorePolish writer Marek Hlasko sometimes writes like Hemingway, but without the premium the latter placed on honor and grace.
Read MoreAs a songwriter, Stephen Malkmus specializes in hooks that never quite resolve, melodies that jump in all directions, and lyrics that drop a few enticing references and then move on.
Read MoreGeorge Orwell strikes me as a man who was easy to love because he had a tenderness in him that runs like a stream throughout these letters and makes you feel, as you read, how much you would have liked to know him.
Read MoreA lack of dramatic combustion sometimes makes the Lyric Stage Company production, despite its intelligent detail, more staidly melodramatic than it should be.
Read MoreMotti Lerner’s characters succeed in making both the secular and ultra-religious life appear rewarding and believable.
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Music Commentary: A Mystery Solved on the 50th Anniversary of the Release of “Queen II”