Review
True Story relies far too heavily on answering the formulaic question ‘Did he do it?’
For these artists, African origin is the foundation that should guide the development of Cuba’s national personality and consciousness.
Two powerful documentaries that explore the dark side of America, past and present.
Joseph Calleja’s voice is absolutely gorgeous, and he has been compared to the great Golden Age tenors Gigli and Caruso.
Today’s Broadway is at its best presenting blockbuster spectacles like Wolf Hall and An American in Paris.
Roger Grenier wears his considerable learning lightly. His writing is a graceful dance of the intellect.
Tragedy isn’t when evil triumphs, but when good becomes entangled in its own inevitable contradictions.
There was new music, of which Nelsons’s an uncommonly gifted interpreter; old music that mostly sounded lively; and a big, loud, late-Romantic warhorse that let him and the BSO show off.
RUBBERBANDance shares some elements of the new-circus genre: a set of very specialized and spectacular physical skills, and the idea that although circusy movement can bombard the audience with thrills, it can also imply human relationships.
In an architectural sense, the Edward M. Kennedy Institute is too quiet a visual statement.
Arts Commentary: The Orchestra Gap — Europe vs. the US