Commentary
The jury’s in. The critics who agreed with an early assessment that 1975’s Dhalgren is a “literary landmark” get to touch champagne flutes and congratulate one another.
Three releases that do a superb job of preserving and explaining historic recordings.
Proceeding largely country by country, Sebastian Strangio penetratingly explores Southeast Asia’s multifaceted struggle with its behemoth Chinese neighbor.
Mexico City settles on Columbus’ replacement, but finds that removal and substitution is agonizing in society which hasn’t changed all that much.
“I believe artists create a safe space for unsafe ideas in our world.”
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.
By skillfully balancing the historical and the imaginative, The Mirror and the Palette is not only a delight to read, but inspirational.
These cheesy board games were repetitive and horrible and I loved every one of them.
Are Boston’s stage critics disengaged from reality? Or is it that they are afraid to speak up?
Arts Remembrance: Stephen Sondheim – Musical Theater Mourns the Passing of a Giant
Stephen Sondheim was the most influential musical-theater artist of the modern era. His death leaves a permanent hole in the art form and in the hearts of his fans.
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