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Despite some awkward staging decisions and the script tampering, there is plenty of lively drive in this production of Hedda Gabler.
Read MoreThe play’s lead characters – representing polar opposites, cultural versus religious Judaism – ultimately exhaust one another, and us.
Read MoreMartin Amis’s fiction, bleak though it often is, paradoxically remains compelling and pleasurable to read because of how well he writes about dreadful things.
Read MoreUnorthodox teases the audience with the come-on that it will be a highly unusual documentary about religion and individual transformation..
Read MoreAn evening with Pilobolus is among the most viewer-friendly of dance experiences.
Read MoreEther Dome is nothing if not ironic: a dire need for relief generates a mess of pain.
Read MoreHave we been missing a major poet while we celebrated a great dramatist and the most influential fiction writer of the second half of the twentieth century?
Read MoreQuibbles about some characteristics of the new pieces aside, hats off to Richard Pittman and the New England Philharmonic for daring to present a program like this..
Read MoreNeuroplasticity is a bit more fleshed-out than its predecessor, but the album retains ample amounts of the slow to mid-tempo spookiness that Al Spx calls “doom soul.”
Read MoreA Disappearing Number combines mathematics and drama in ways that will enthrall some, overwhelm others, and puzzle the rest.
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Visual Arts Commentary: John Singer Sargent — A Particular Sort of Loner