Month: August 2013
In this brilliantly written play, Kenneth Lonergan finds both the humor and angst in the moral muddle generated by the Reagan Revolution.
Read MoreThe Lenox Library’s annual book sale – drawing on the discards of the area’s writers, teachers, performers, psychotherapists and culture-obsessed summer-residences — is considered one of the best on the East Coast.
Read MorePerhaps it is not so much that the characters are thinly developed but that it is hard to make them out through the scrim of their Dostoevskian lucubrations.
Read MoreIn four jam-packed rooms, in paper, acetate, and select video sequences, Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs: The Creation of a Classic deconstructs the film’s artistic and technical achievement.
Read MoreJobs is not an awful movie so much as an awkward one — it falls short of its intent, which I assume is to dramatize the tenacity of genius.
Read MoreIf you’ve been thinking of visiting The Mount, the sumptuous writer’s retreat Edith Wharton built for herself in the Berkshires at the turn of the twentieth century, now is the time.
Read MoreArts Fuse critics select the best in music, theater, visual arts, and film that’s coming up this week.
Read MoreIf the music that can touch you so deeply with so few notes weren’t so magical, there’s also Emahoy Tsegue-Mariam Guebru’s fascinating back-story.
Read MoreNothing is going to be done about the appearance of the review in the Boston Globe. The reasoning is that, because the newspaper didn’t send its own critic, it hadn’t broken the ban. This is inconsistent and disingenuous.
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