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The Worcester Chamber Music Society’s latest concert was inspired by an ambitious concept and it was played with conviction, but the performance was continuously dogged by problems with acoustics.
Read MoreThe Whistler in the Dark production does right by the gaunt power of “Vinegar Tom” — if only dramatist Caryl Churchill hadn’t served up such a tidily edifying coven of alleged sorceresses.
Read MoreIn 1853, the Czech scholar Karol Jaromír Erben published “A Bouquet of Folk Tales,” which became a source-book for artists and composers, and “one of the three foundational texts of Czech literature.”
Read MoreDavid Ferry’s voice is quiet but never shirks. It admits directly and indirectly that the world is a perplexing place.
Read MoreFrom the moment he began to play, pianist Paul Lewis established his authority. His performance was spellbinding and eloquent, animated by a respect for precision and rhythmic clarity.
Read MoreFuse film critic Tim Jackson picks the best of the past year in movies, a round-up that includes some grievously overlooked documentaries, independent, and foreign films.
Read MoreEditor Bharat Tandon guides us expertly through “Emma,” stopping along the way to augment the text by clarifying usages, concepts, and references that may stump the 21st-century reader.
Read MoreAn adaptor has to make choices, and this theatrical version of “Invisible Man” focuses on the novel’s most straightforward narrative strand.
Read MoreIn this production, director Piotr Fomenko “wanted to explore whether family happiness is even possible, the fight to keep it and the fear of losing it.”
Read MoreWhat kind of culture is produced by a society that lives and governs itself by opinion polls?
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