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Composer/guitarist Richard Nelson’s followers can count on being surprised at how nimbly he can satisfy their appetites.
Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
Guitarist Aaron Larget-Caplan managed to keep the micro-opera’s crazed figure sympathetic as he blurred the lines between reality and delusion.
In terms of the joy that theater can provide, this Speakeasy Stage production sets the bar high.
Looking for a book to give a new baby and their family? These charming new books fit the bill.
Screenwriter, film director, and novelist Charlie Kaufman tries to lighten up in “Orion and the Dark”.
This is a handsome, smallish (7 1/2” by 9 1/2”) hardcover coffee table book, brimming with photos, and structured into brief, bite-sized chapters. Part of the fun is that it’s a volume you can pick up, put down, pick up again, and never worry about losing the mood or flavor.

Visual Arts Commentary: The Problematics of Multiculturalism at the MFA — On the Dallin Front
Boston’s MFA owns the ethical and cultural dilemma regarding the location of Cyrus Dallin’s monumental statue “Appeal to the Great Spirit,” acquired as a gift in 1913.
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