Review
David Byrne and the band has clearly made a home out of the Emerson Colonial, working out tweaks in what has evolved into an extremely tight, invigorating show.
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As Judy Garland, Renée Zellweger is in a movie that doesn’t match her fine performance.
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In this remarkable and timely book, David Treuer is determined that Native American history not be seen as a “catalog of pain.”
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This is one of the zippiest, most life-affirming opera recordings I have heard in a long time. Well, this puts it a bit too blandly, because the work’s social satire also targets the smug self-satisfaction and careless cruelty of the powerful.
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modern world out of control is more perceptive and chilling than ever.
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In this seemingly modest, but beautifully constructed and deeply moving play, Donald Margulies has tackled some of the thorniest questions of our time.
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Why has Downton Abbey, the film and the series, been so successful? We are given a romanticized vision of essential ‘Britishness,’ a nostalgic version of the class system.
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Jean-Baptiste Del Amo has written a marvelous novel in the naturalistic mode that explores how the lives of humans and animals are both interdependent and in conflict — it is not for the faint of heart or weak of stomach.
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Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker invites the audience to let go of outside distractions and meditate on our own deeper feelings.
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An attempt to comment on contemporary masculinity, but without enough mind or matter to make much of an impact.
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Design Review: A Singular Art Nouveau Shop Front in Harvard Square