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Our expert critics supply a guide to film, visual art, theater, author readings, television, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.
Arvo Pärt’s ubiquity in concert halls and on disc for much of the last fifty years suggests that he’s got plenty to say to our cultural and historic moment.
The play eventually packs a wallop, but it drags its feet at the start.
The cross generational Do the Reggae Tour suggested that reggae’s creative trek was far from over.
A trio of political films at TIFF — ranging from tragedy to farce.
Across his career, British conductor Martyn Brabbins has used his bully pulpit to bring to light all sorts of deserving, unfamiliar repertoire, including the music of compatriot Havergal Brian.
It’s hard to imagine that Hollywood suits would get behind a movie focused on a corrupt political regime, even one that’s now history.
Director P.T. Anderson’s latest puts up a fight, but it is for a lost cause.
The book presents brisk, information-rich capsule biographies of twenty largely under-publicized figures who, against the odds and at significant personal sacrifice, worked valiantly to promote a range of underdog causes, from abolition to union organizing to disarmament.
“A Body To Live In” is not trying to be a conventional biopic — this is an atmospheric reminiscence of an underground movement.
Classical Music Commentary: Boston’s Lost Opportunity — How the BSO Board Chose Charles Munch over Leonard Bernstein