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The perversity of The Handmaid’s Tale oppressive allegory lends itself well to opera, and Boston Lyric Opera makes the most of the material’s emotional heights and depths.
Zhang Yimou’s return to form is a story of doubles, duplicity — and zithers.
“I saw it coming three years ago, when there was a frenzy of development in the Fenway. Now the neighborhood looks like a corporate mall.”
The White Crow, wisely, offers up no easy answers regarding why Rudolf Nureyev defected.
A landmark concert from 1992 is a chance to rediscover Betty Carter’s greatness, to appreciate again how this artist was special to the very essence of her soul.
School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play is a serious comedy that takes aim at our provinciality and ignorance.
Bolden is an intense film, depicting a life lived in a horrifically racist time and place.
In the case of a scene set in the Lodz Ghetto, the lineup of characters on the way to the concentration camps veered, for me, close to Holocaust porn.
Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.

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