Month: October 2019
Dramatist Tracy Letts’s new play is raw, funny, and intensely personal.
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No one would classify the National as “arena rock,” but Matt Berninger and the group proved at Agganis that they’re quite capable of filling an arena and then putting on a show worthy of the space.
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The audience members were as diverse as the cast, the show is not being staged in a traditional space in Boston, and the play is incredibly relevant.
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At its best, Lauren Yee’s vibrant play with music offers a compelling exploration of survivor guilt, the urge for revenge, the deforming power of the past, and the impossibility of finding justice for crimes against humanity.
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Skylark continues to impress me with its distinctly beautiful sound, its dazzling control over dynamics and intonation, and its unusually compelling programming.
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There can be little doubt that the urgency of the opera’s message about equality is as relevant as ever.
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Experiments With Empire makes some perceptive points about how the connections between ethnology and fiction can help us re-imagine the world.
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The two new Arbors discs are intended to bring Lerner and Loewe back into the jazz mainstream. We will see what happens. But what wonderful music these two groups have produced!
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These are songs that have forged a life of their own across eras.
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Portrait is a masterly work of historical realism — about an enduring love between two women — done in high-flying poetic style.
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