Robert Israel
Kudos for two short plays by Tennessee Williams and Yukio Mishma at this year’s Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival
The Lyric Stage Company of Boston is giving this nostalgic hokum a spirited production.
We are definitely feeling a sense of Buddy haunting us, to be sure. I mean, this theater is the place he visited. He attended many, if not most, of the shows here.
The highlights of this year’s gathering will be productions of newly discovered or rediscovered works by both Tennessee Williams and Yukio Mishima.
The MFA’s Arts of Islamic Cultures gallery offers an impressive visual representation of a region’s cultures, geographies, and histories.
Words from George Orwell to live by: “To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.”
This year’s Montreal Jazz Festival Festival would have been more successful had it not been for all the construction ripping apart the city.
Peter Schjeldahl debunks (and praises) works of art, while also acknowledging the strategic importance of beauty.
Arts Commentary: MFA Boston — at 150
There have been times in the MFA’s past when it hasn’t lived up to its educational mission, when it has pandered to the whims of the wealthy — particularly its fat cat benefactors.
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