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Dan Hodge turns two hundred and fifty stanzas of Shakespeare’s rhyme royal into the stuff of a high-class poetry slam.
“When we turn so crass and commercial that we have lost our way, Samuel Beckett will be rediscovered as the way back.”
Antoine Volodine is a master of the prolonged, very prolonged, tongue-in-cheek spoof. But he is also dead serious.
Makine may be plagiarizing himself, which is a perfectly legitimate thing for a writer to do, but scenes of spring snow and railroad stations become clichés even in talented hands.
Simplicity is the key to director Scott Edmiston’s passionate vision for this musical.
Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, theater, music, dance, visual arts, and author events for the coming week.
Love and Money is a short play, lengthened beyond one-act duration by stuffing a Cole Porter interlude into its middle.’
Claims that Stephan Micus erases international boundaries and makes one-world music get it backward. You visit his world on his records.
Classical Music Commentary: Kapellmeister Nelsons
We’ll have to wait and see how Andris Nelsons balances things out. But there’s no reason to suspect that Boston’s getting the short end of the stick here.
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