Review
The orchestral playing, a couple moments of questionable intonation notwithstanding, was commanding and, at times, exhilarating.
Read MoreIn interesting ways, German Stage’s ongoing exploration of Germany’s immigrant populations provides a lens through which we can evaluate how we perceive our immigrants and how we treat them.
Read MoreThe biography is a remarkable read. It has all the hefty research you’d expect from a scholarly work, yet the story is told through prose fit for a great novel.
Read MoreGoya: Order and Disorder is likely the most important exhibition on the New England museum calendar for the coming year and then some.
Read MoreSo much of what this novel has to say feels bracing and necessary. This is where a good part of America lives—dangling over a chasm.
Read MoreThe fine efforts of the New Rep performers and Jim Petosa’s thoughtful staging can’t solve this musical’s central flaw.
Read MoreOne of the reasons audiences and funders love Kyle Abraham’s work is that the layered landscapes of his dances resonate with the fraught conditions outside the theatre.
Read MoreThere’s no debate: The Great Gatsby is the Great American Novel, with Moby Dick and Huckleberry Finn as also-rans.
Read MoreWhile The Bone Clocks is compulsively readable, there are too many parts of this book that can only be called lazy.
Read MoreThe good parts of The Judge make the its missteps more painful to watch.
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