Review

Film Review: “Project Hail Mary” — The Sweet Smell of Science Fiction Wonder

March 18, 2026
Posted in , ,

“Project Hail Mary” is an antidote to dystopias, real and imagined.

Film Feature: From the Sewers, With Love — BUFF’s New Directors Bring the Underground Back to Boston

March 17, 2026
Posted in , ,

“It’s spring; we rise again. BUFF’s back, we’re bringing hell with us. The underground is back.” — Phil Healy, co-director of the Boston Underground Film Festival

Theater Review: Standing Alone Among the Herd — Yale Rep’s Darkly Hilarious Revival of “Rhinoceros”

March 17, 2026
Posted in , ,

“Rhinoceros” is a powerful wake-up call that, whether we like it nor not, we are writhing on the horns of a dilemma.

Concert Review: Virtuosity and Volatility — Tigran Hamasyan’s High-Wire Fusion at Berklee

March 17, 2026
Posted in , , , , ,

An evening where music steeped in Armenian culture was too often outweighed by the acrobatic complexities of prog rock and jazz fusion.

Book Review: “Of Loss and Lavender” — Sinan Antoon on Exile and Forgetting

March 16, 2026
Posted in , ,

I cannot recall reading a more poignant and persuasive description of the inexorable descent of Alzheimer’s disease, certainly not from inside the sufferer’s mind.

Theater Review: “The Antiquities” — An Alarming Futuristic Time Capsule Undone by Lifeless Design

March 16, 2026
Posted in , ,

In his speculative play “The Antiquities,” dramatist Jordan Harrison has no trouble envisioning earthlings in the post-human age.

Book Review: Toxic Completism — Rescuing Jazz from the Algorithm in “Listening to Prestige”

March 15, 2026
Posted in , , ,

“Listening to Prestige” can be read as a kind of post-literate anti-Spotify. And, lo and behold, it’s true jazz history.

Theater Review: “The End Is Nigh” — and It’s a Blast: LaB’s Satirical Pageant of Survival and Spectacle

March 14, 2026
Posted in , ,

Come for the frolic and high energy professional stagecraft; stay to experience this creative ensemble’s answer to: Who the hell are we, facing the end?

Dance Review: Gibney Company’s Chamber-Scale Brilliance Lights Up the ICA Stage

March 14, 2026
Posted in , ,

The Gibney Company has brought a three-work evening to town that any chamber-sized contemporary dance company in the world would admire.

Visual Arts Review: Flux and Form — Calder-Klee and Giacometti-Rothko Dialogues at MFA Boston

March 13, 2026
Posted in , ,

“Taking a Line for a Walk: Alexander Calder & Paul Klee” and “An Imagined Dialogue: Alberto Giacometti & Mark Rothko” are touching reminders of the remarkable kindness inherent in making art – the desire to reach across time and space to offer something to another.

Recent Posts

Popular Posts

Categories

Archives