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In this book, personality trumps process, although The Eugene O’Neill’s Theater Center’s purpose is, at its source, process.
Read MoreThe Commonwealth Lyric Theater has again brought to the fore an underperformed, unfamiliar masterpiece well worth getting to know. Good for them and lucky for us.
Read MoreCritic Eric Bentley valued the theater of audacity above all, and that is just what is on glorious display in Trinity Rep’s marvelously nervy A Lie of the Mind.
Read MoreThe Tony accolades bestowed upon A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, will no doubt assure Darko Tresnjak’s future on Broadway.
Read MoreViolinist Stefan Jackiw and pianist Anna Polonsky created another Rockport Music evening to remember.
Read MoreI love Saturday Night Live as much as the next guy, but Kids In The Hall did much more with much less than Lorne Michael’s comedy fiefdom.
Read MoreThe challenging viola part takes prominence in Shostakovich’s String Quartet no. 13, highlighting an essential yet oft-unsung voice of a string quartet.
Read MoreLydia R. Diamond’s Smart People is an amusing takedown of our “post-racial” world, and it is receiving a snappy, well-acted production via the Huntington Theatre Company.
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Arts Commentary: The “Maleficent” Syndrome — Making the Villain the Hero
Perhaps because real life is so painful, so tragic, we cannot bear to see evil in full flight. Evil must be relative, it must fly on wings of rationale, on a broomstick of retribution.
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