Commentary
I try to be optimistic, but it’s hard not to observe that the jazz club scene in eastern Massachusetts is worse than it’s been in decades.
On paper, at least, the upcoming season of the BSO is a bit of a letdown: cautious, unthreatening, comfortable.
Resistance, at least in Boston theater, is futile.
Thoughtful Branding underscores a community’s sense of place.
The nagging question: why didn’t the ICA didn’t create a building that offered options to be developed vertically?
Whatever challenges there may be, the enthusiasm of the New England Philharmonic’s leadership is infectious.
At his best, Albert Murray is a thinker passionately in love with thinking, a virtuoso of verbal music, an American to his core.
“Art . . . is . . . fundamental equipment for existence on human terms.” — Albert Murray
A Painter of Our Time is a gorgeous rumination on art, love, sexuality, revolution, capitalism, exile, propaganda, politics, human nature, and society.
Theater Commentary: “Trumpismo avant la lettre” and the Elliot Norton Awards
Hypnotized by celebrity and the monied class, our stage critics have become a gaggle of cheerleaders, feckless enough to call Diane Paulus a “visionary.”
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