Featured
You want Baroque energy and Early Classic poise? Here’s a first-rate recording of a one-act, one-singer opera by Telemann along with some of his imaginative orchestral works.
Read More
Goose’s three nights seemed a bit hit-and-miss, which is not unusual for jam-bands, although that only made highpoints more exhilarating.
Read More
Spanish director Victor Erice looks back at what’s lost and gained in “Close Your Eyes”.
Read More
“The Front Room” lacks the suspense and tension of “My Mother the Car” and, on top of that, it doesn’t have the benefit of a super-catchy theme song.
Read More
This week’s poem: Sara Letourneau’s “An Evening of Hummingbirds”
Read More
Our expert critics supply a guide to film, visual art, theater, author readings, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.
Read More
Despite excessive hero-worshiping, “The De Palma Decade” is a thoroughly enjoyable portrait of director Brian De Palma, the counterculture master of the scream scene.
Read More
Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
Read More
Arts Remembrance: To Sérgio with Love — Sérgio Mendes, 1941–2024
Sergio Mendes, the man who ignited my own love affair with Brazilian music, has passed, at the age of 83, from complications of long Covid.
Read More