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Despite commentary to the contrary, Jonathan Blumhofer thinks that in the negotiations between the Met management and the unions there was a winner and a loser.
There are some fine moments in Re:Group Theatre’s production of the epic A Texas Trilogy, but there are also many limitations.
The establishment of Design Museum Boston is long overdue.
Gellu Naum does not use the heterogeneous juxtapositions of surrealism to create something jocular, absurd, prankish, or gratuitously paradoxical.
Though it doesn’t seem that Chicago will ever shake up their setlists or rediscover their original mission, at least they can still sneak just a little Varese in with the hits.
If Van Gogh had picked up an acoustic guitar, he’d be Frank.
The authors have used their research well. Beyond applying an abundance of detail to trace his intellectual growth as well as the trajectory of his emotions, Eiland and Jennings have managed to intimate—though perhaps not to capture—something more elusive: a sense of Benjamin’s aura.
Because it includes so many images from all parts of his life, Finding Fela may offer the finest tribute to the star’s determination and defiance though the way his face and body look as time goes on.
Opera Commentary: The Mess at the Met — … curtain!
On the surface, this is a deal that lets both sides go forward having saved face, though a closer look at things suggests that the musicians came out ahead.
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