Review
Be prepared for some challenging, off-the-beaten path choices, including a new tradition.
Are men totally useless in Zero Motivation? Well, they can come in handy when you want to use one of them as a sexual object.
Attempting to dig underneath our protective psychic skins to get at the festering Ids within, John Kuntz would like Necessary Monsters to mesh laughter and fright, comedy and horror.
For those of us who love Christmas music, Aimee Mann and company showed how to do it right: a lot of lovely songs and festive spirits, not a lot of sticky sentiment.
If the fate of life on earth comes down to mother and daughter bonding over a racy passage in Anaïs Nin, then he whales should just call it a day.
Mariana Rondón’s Bad Hair is a beautifully acted film about the stultifying pressures on downtrodden lives.
Marian Schwartz’s careful translation of Anna Karenina is exquisitely mindful of the book’s complex linguistic texture.
Entertaining yet incisive, The Conquest of Plassans remains a devastatingly acute reminder that religion and politics make surprisingly compatible bedfellows.
On this show, thriving on caricature as it does, the chasm between Amy and Sheldon stops laughter long enough to suggest poignancy.
BEMF’s double bill of two short and comic Pergolesi operas made for an unusual and totally delightful presentation.
Arts Commentary: The Orchestra Gap — Europe vs. the US