Featured

Music Interview: Feeling out “The Feelies”

September 12, 2016
Posted in , , , ,

Four nerdy young men from small-town suburban New Jersey named their band after a prophetic product of Aldous Huxley’s imagination.

Read More

Film Review: “Sully” — A Solid Shot of American Heroism

September 9, 2016
Posted in , ,

I was never bored during Sully‘s brisk 90 minutes.

Read More

Music Interview: Preview/Interview with Gil Rose on Odyssey Opera’s “Dmitrij”

September 9, 2016
Posted in , , , , ,

“Would I love to do these big operas in Symphony Hall? Yes. When I feel like I’ve got two-thousand people to attend, I’ll move over to Symphony Hall.”

Read More

Theater Review: Bread & Puppet’s “Whatforward Circus” — Agit-Prop, But Imaginative

September 8, 2016
Posted in , ,

Bread & Puppet Theater’s world of anthropomorphized trees and talking toilets is often funny, sometimes beautiful, and always memorable.

Read More

Theater Review: “Autumn Stage” — Being and Plenty of Nothingness

September 8, 2016
Posted in , ,

By the end, Autumn Stage comes off as a pint-sized No Exit.

Read More

Theater Review: “Blasted” — A Splendidly Visceral Wake-up Call

September 7, 2016
Posted in , ,

There is little doubt in my mind that this powerful production of Blasted will be one of the high points in Boston theater this year.

Read More

Book Review: Dangerous Delusional Illusions — “A Cage in Search of a Bird”

September 7, 2016
Posted in , , ,

An absorbing and disturbing novel that explores the dangerous turns that erotomania can take.

Read More

Fuse Theater Review: “Company” — What We Sing About When We Sing About Love

September 5, 2016
Posted in , ,

There’s a lot of love in the Lyric Stage Company’s production of Stephen Sondheim’s 1970 Tony Award winning show, Company.

Read More

Fuse Film Review: “The Other Side” — Southern Fried Survival

September 4, 2016
Posted in , ,

The Other Side comes off as a reserved, rather poignant glimpse into the lives of people who have very little to hope for.

Read More

Music Review: Rapper Vince Staples Longs for Escape in “Prima Donna”

September 4, 2016
Posted in , , ,

Prima Donna is a rare thing: a conceptual EP that works.

Read More

Recent Posts