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Not much bang and plenty of whimper
Director Diane Paulus’s high-spirited A.R.T. adaptation of Ionesco’s anti-conformist play sometimes overplays its comic business, but John Turturro’s scruffy, strident, anguished Berenger gives the production its necessary mix of horror, humor, and desperate resistance.
Martin Scorsese’s feverish New York classic remains a master class in urban atmosphere and subjective filmmaking—and a chilling study of how alienation curdles into violent fantasy.
Wilbert L. Cooper examines the paradox of Black police officers seeking safety and status inside an institution shaped by racial violence.
In her Boston solo premiere, “Rāgachitra,” the former Nrityagram artist draws on a lifetime in classical Indian dance to create searching, contemporary works shaped by memory, mythology, gender, and an inward turn.
In Vlady Kociancich’s newly translated Argentine novel, an indecisive Buenos Aires lawyer wanders through Berlin, cinema, erotic fantasy, and a reality that may be entirely of his own making.
An exuberant documentary traces the British Invasion star’s serendipitous path from Peter and Gordon to producing James Taylor and Linda Ronstadt.
Violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter’s latest Alpha recording pairs two late works by André Previn with Sebastian Currier’s witty, searching “Ringtone Variations.”
A newly released 1977 collection documents the Cramps making the past feel dangerous again.
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