Review
Gigs by superb bands led by Mary Halvorson and Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol at the Regattabar.
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Two outstanding films from this year’s Toronto International Film Festival — “The Tale of Silyan” and “Wrong Husband”
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Playwright Eboni Booth won last year’s Pulitzer Prize for Drama for this script, and it is a heartwarming, well-constructed, one-act.
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“HIM” works incredibly well as a Grotesque, and by that I mean the film takes the incipient, creepy ideologies of pro football and blows them up to terrifying and absurd proportions.
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Of special interest is Askold Melnyczuk’s treatment of objects. His imagination transforms curios into uncanny artefacts.
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Although Greg Epstein’s analysis and critique of what he calls a tech religion are on target, his solutions for undoing its damage are bland, vague, and toothless.
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An illuminating book about the 19th-century American artist Francesca Alexander, a Bostonian who shaped a very different life for herself and for her art.
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The McCoy Tyner Legacy Band, in a program called “Blues on the Corner” had it all: the unrelenting, all-enveloping power that was a hallmark of Coltrane’s bands, but also an attention to dynamics, detail, and, most important, melody.
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On this night, it was clear that Brittany Howard’s status as a force of nature came not from her bellowing vocals so much as the soulful subtleties she wove into high notes.
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“The Runarounds” is loosely inspired by the rock band’s actual experiences, which may be why the show feels more realistic than similar musician-centric dramas.
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