Review
Congratulations to Gloucester Stage’s new artistic director Rebecca Bradshaw for mounting the regional premiere of this interesting script, a kitchen sink comedy/drama that is anything but routine.
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A new CD brings us marvelous and varied works by an American master composed between the ages of 88 and 93 (and a mere child at 55).
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This first Jacob’s Pillow visit by Dutch National Ballet offered a deep immersion in classical ballet past and present. On every level it belongs to the top tier of dance in the Berkshires.
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As a major destination fest only a short ride south of Boston, Levitate still remains true to the reggae/jam culture of its surf-shop community.
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Two exhibitions merit a visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art — but soon. Each closes July 16.
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The Out-Laws is another mild diversion spat out of Adam Sandler’s Happy Madison factory.
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The acts of reinvention in “Mission: Impossible–Dead Reckoning Part One” are revelatory, object lessons for how all future summer sequels can be written.
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“The Lesson” is well-crafted, infused with nervy suspense and an almost Gothic sense of unease.
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Bohuslav Martinů, one of the greatest Czech-born composers, reveals a dark-comic sensibility in his rarely performed “Knife” and “Bridge” operas.
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Book Review: Placing University Branding Irons in the Critical Fire
Any reader curious about the multifarious and complex relations between academic values and branding will find much to mull over in these essays.
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