Month: July 2014
Some of J.M.W. Turner’s most personal, experimental, and enigmatic works have been selected for this show. They are also among the most fragile and least often shown.
Read MoreLocal playwright Jack Neary always captures the frisson of nostalgia and resentment familiar to Catholic school graduates of a certain era, teasing gently without ever offending.
Read MoreTwo significant feature debuts at the MFA’s French Film Festival — Age of Panic goes where few movies have gone before, while Apaches trains a calm, dispassionate gaze on disaffected youth.
Read MoreTadao Ando’s new Clark, minimalist in its materials and understated presence, is more Zen than a billboard for its disparate architectural elements, more harmony than postmodern dissonance.
Read MoreOne good reason to see Matthew Sweet is that his songs are more immediate live than on CD.
Read MoreTo judge from the BSO’s responsive playing and the audience’s enthusiastic responses, director-designate Andris Nelsons can’t do much wrong these days. Of course, a decade ago, neither could James Levine.
Read MoreIncomparable opera diva Renée Fleming makes her debut as a stage actress — playing an impossible opera diva — in playwright Joe DiPietro’s sliver of a comedy Living on Love.
Read MoreCompany One’s production treats audiences to a seamless, eight-member ensemble who perform with a complicated bevy of multimedia effects that are so smoothly integrated into the action they elicit ooohs and aahs from the crowd.
Read MoreDirector Jenna Ware’s adaptation (a world premiere) of Carlo Goldoni’s inspired zaniness puts a delightfully distinctive spin on a classic of clowning.
Read MoreArts Fuse critics select the best in music, film, theater, visual arts, author readings, and dance that’s coming up in the next week.
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