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More pithy reviews of Boston Jewish Film Festival fare, including some reflections on entries in the Short Films Competition.
The Boston Lyric Opera’s new production of “Macbeth,” with sets designed by John Conklin, is based on elements of a New York City Opera production and plays up the macabre elements of the story, which are many.
The nine tales found in “Maybe This Time” chart the unnerving psychological transformations of its characters. Its style forces us to reconsider our ways of reading and our childlike dependency on narrative authority.
Boston’s Cantata Singers opens its 48th season with an eclectic musical mix of the Baroque and the Modern.
Inescapably erotic, flowers are all about desire. What are they but a glorious exhibition and frame of their own genitals?
Congratulations to the Boston Jewish Film Festival are certainly due to its longevity and general quality.
Entertaining and provocative, this quick-witted and dreamlike evening of theater suggests that imbalances of power sacrifice individual freedoms and love. Everyone becomes a doll (master and servant) in a doll society.
Charles Busch’s plays are informed by an obsession to playfully upend iconic film genres. This time it’s the celluloid celebration of nuns, and what a divine romp it is.
Visual Arts Commentary: “America at 250” — Art and Commerce at the MFA