Review
The Lyric Stage Company’s production of David Henry Hwang’s Obie award-winning play is serviceably absorbing.
Film historian Peter Cowie’s writing is always intelligent, if somewhat dry, and normally correct in its evaluations of Ingmar Bergman’s films.
Despite its undeniable fun, Christopher Durang’s play feels somewhat quaint a decade or so since it was written.
Director Takashi Miike’s latest is a killjoy of a film: it doesn’t want to have fun with its material, but it’s impossible to take it seriously.
The excellent ensemble of Huntington Theatre Company actors, fittingly, work well as a team.
The enthusiastic spirit of “Lost Soulz” is appealing enough to make what feels like two different types of movies sutured together dramatically satisfying.
It is hard to think of a moment in the last 100 years when Käthe Kollwitz’s work has been more timely.
What could have gone terribly wrong goes terrifically right in the hands of this creative team, culminating in a convergence of the life, the oeuvre, and our protagonist’s encroaching agony.
French opera arias, many recorded for the first time, by the enchanting tenor Cyrille Dubois. The vocal treasures here include a stirring 1842 denunciation of slavery in the Caribbean.
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