Arts Fuse Editor
The fourth and final season of On My Block maintains its precarious equilibrium between laughter and menace, but it is teetering.
At 75, Dave Liebman pays tribute to John Coltrane by still doing what Coltrane would surely have wanted him to do: to look within and find truths that are a wellspring of rewarding and challenging music for the rest of us.
The biography raises the subject of Man Ray’s Jewish roots, but the matter is dropped pretty quickly.
Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
Series creator Molly Smith Metzler clearly cares about the subject matter and is determined to tell a nuanced story about the hellish plight of the victims of domestic abuse.
Let’s see if Prayers for the Stolen is selected as Mexico’s Academy Award nominee. It’s a long shot, given that this is a film that tells so much of the truth.
Unfortunately, it’s becoming increasingly rare for Boston area theater companies to produce shows that are as deeply rooted in our local culture as this one.
Told with just the right amount of empathy, Five Years North offers an illuminating, and much needed, look at immigration in America.
By skillfully balancing the historical and the imaginative, The Mirror and the Palette is not only a delight to read, but inspirational.
Arts Remembrance: Arnie Reisman — The Party of the First Part
In a way, Arnie was, to Boston, what George S. Kaufman was to the Algonquin Round Table, except the “vicious circle” lasted only ten years while Arnie enlivened his circle of friends for more than sixty.
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