Commentary
How Stephen Colbert’s late-night run became a casualty of corporate power, political retaliation, and the thin skin of America’s oligarch class.
To appreciate Sonny Rollins is to marvel at the casual ordinariness of his blazing genius.
After a year of safe revivals and recycled material, companies hint at change—but caution, celebrity casting, and déjà vu still dominate the lineup.
What happens when the rebel archetype outlives its ideals—and finds new, troubling champions.
Why festival programming—and humanities partnerships—can help the BSO.
Part one of a run-down of live-action narrative shorts. As usual for the IFFBoston, the quality is high, with intriguing subject matter and technical polish.
With today’s Boston Symphony in an uproar, lacking direction, attention should be paid to Henry Higginson, who invented the Boston Symphony. He knew what he was doing. He knew how to scout and hire conductors. He knew what music he wanted played. He knew what the orchestra was for.
In Boston, Leonard Bernstein might have sustained Serge Koussevitzky’s bold adventure—and changed the course of American classical music. Today’s Boston Symphony is adrift
Though Brian Wilson has left us, his enormous musical legacy lives on through a growing series of posthumous CD and vinyl reissues and books.
Design and Visual Arts: Affordable Housing, By Design
Revisiting the Eameses’ modular dream at a moment when policy, economics, and architecture are under pressure to deliver.
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