Review

Music Feature: Guitarist and Composer Toninho Horta Meets Berklee

November 14, 2017
Posted in , , ,

Toninho Horta’s musical signature is distinctive: complex harmonies, subtle but masterful guitar work, and gentle, plaintive vocals.

Read More

Theater Review: “The Revolutionists” — Comedy During the Reign of Terror

November 12, 2017
Posted in , ,

Director Courtney O’Connor, the Nora Theatre, and its skilled cast do right by this hilarious historical comedy.

Read More

Book Review: “We Were Eight Years in Power” — An Essential Book

November 11, 2017
Posted in , , ,

Nothing could be more necessary at this point in time than this book.

Read More

Theater Review: “Souvenir” — An Intimate Gem

November 11, 2017
Posted in , ,

Spiro Veloudos and his talented cast has given us an evening in the theater when all that makes us human comes to the fore.

Read More

Film Review: “Lady Bird” — Coming of Age, Refreshed

November 11, 2017
Posted in , ,

With Lady Bird, Greta Gerwig has come up with what will surely be one of the best films of the year.

Read More

Concert Review: Linda J. Chase — “The City Is Burning”

November 11, 2017
Posted in , , , ,

Chase’s iconoclastic genre-crossing oratorio proceeds from dark to light, and wins its struggle for transcendence.

Read More

Theater Review: “Trapped in a Traveling Minstrel Show” — Look Forward in Anger

November 10, 2017
Posted in , ,

Sleeping Weazel stages a gutsy production of an angry, ugly, and essential history lesson.

Read More

Book Review: Richard Gessner — Sounding out Shapes with the Logic of Dreams

November 10, 2017
Posted in , ,

Richard Gessner’s head is a cavern piled high with wonders—original images, fresh metaphors, mind-stretching scenarios, and alternate world orders.

Read More

Theater Review: A Soaring “Silent Sky” at MRT

November 10, 2017
Posted in , ,

I found myself almost wishing the dramatist had written a longer play (a rare desire coming from a theater critic).

Read More

Visual Arts Review: Morgan at the Wadsworth — A Collector of the Fabulous

November 9, 2017
Posted in , ,

Nothing of value, it seems, was out of the reach of J. Pierpont Morgan’s acquisitive grasp.

Read More

Recent Posts

Popular Posts

Categories

Archives