Review
Go ahead, name another older rocker this side of Iggy Pop who can get away with playing most of his show bare-chested.
The Schumann First formed the capstone to conductor Asher Fisch’s conspicuously satisfying Boston Symphony Orchestra subscription series debut program
Breath & Imagination is a realistic, moving, and very revealing take on what it means to be a black artist in America, both then and now.
At every turn I sense potential in The Americans, always untapped, for a smart sitcom.
Israeli dramatist Savyon Liebrecht’s new play A Case Named Freud is her most ambitious and dramatically satisfying yet.
Tsvetanka Elenkova is one of the key figures in contemporary Bulgarian poetry.
Why is The Water-Babies a classic fairy tale? It doesn’t take itself too seriously, yet it doesn’t ignore important issues.
Xavier Dolan’s up-close look at a mother-son relationship has the intensity of a John Cassavetes film — it can be gut-wrenching to watch.
Why did Patton Oswalt submit himself, for a time, to drowning in movies? I never quite understood that..
Otto Piene’s art is at once appealing, accessible, and yet somehow unworldly: joyful mystery yoked to dynamic playfulness.
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