Month: February 2014

New York Theater Round Up: “Intimacy,” “Stage Kiss,” and “Love and Information”

February 28, 2014
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A trio of superb off Broadway plays explore the complicated faces of love and lust — from the seamy to the sublime.

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Dance Review: TAO Dance Theater — All Wound Up

February 28, 2014
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If 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.

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Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

February 28, 2014
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, dance, film, and theater that’s coming up this week.

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Film Review: “If You Build It” — A Stirring Look at Construction and Idealism

February 28, 2014
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Are 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?

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Theater Commentary: On “Absence” and the Presence of Understudies

February 27, 2014
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I had the opportunity to see two performances of Peter M. Floyd’s Absence at Boston Playwrights’ Theatre.

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Book Review: “Killing the Second Dog” — A Pair of Captivating Polish Con Artists

February 27, 2014
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Polish writer Marek Hlasko sometimes writes like Hemingway, but without the premium the latter placed on honor and grace.

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Concert Review: Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks at the Paradise

February 26, 2014
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As 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.

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Book Review: Appreciating the Life of George Orwell — A Giant of the 20th Century

February 26, 2014
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George 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.

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Theater Review: A Moderately Powerful “Death of a Salesman” from The Lyric Stage Company

February 25, 2014
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A lack of dramatic combustion sometimes makes the Lyric Stage Company production, despite its intelligent detail, more staidly melodramatic than it should be.

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Theater Review: “Hard Love” — A Timely Exploration of a Bitter Religious Rift

February 25, 2014
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Motti Lerner’s characters succeed in making both the secular and ultra-religious life appear rewarding and believable.

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