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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
There’s no question that either the violinist or the orchestra are completely at home with Julia Perry’s larger style or the notes: this is about as confident and secure a first recording as they come.
The graphics in “The Warehouse” provide clear explanations of a grim reality. The U.S. leads the world at incarcerating its citizens.
Returning to Gillette Stadium in Foxborough on Thursday night, the Rolling Stones, miraculously, sounded dangerous again.
There is no denying that “Kidnapped”‘s warning about political authority abusing religion for its own accumulative ends resonates powerfully at this moment.
Two Boston-area chamber music ensembles recently ended their seasons. Each embraced the present in its own distinctive way.
The script is representative of the pitfalls of current theatrical minimalism — less can so easily be less.
The inciting action of Smith’s moving memoir is the event that forced her to reckon with the fact that her marriage was in trouble.
The reissue of this novel now is valuable, beyond its considerable historical and aesthetic virtues, because it makes pertinent points about today’s world, bedeviled by war, misery, poverty, and the enticing lure of despotism as an answer to democracy’s shortcomings.

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