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“It’s easier to make a movie now but it’s harder to get it distributed in a way that people will see it.”
Read MoreBritish dramatist Caryl Churchill proffers a valuable line of satiric attack on our delusions of doing good, so it is easy to forgive the dramatist her broad and scattershot comic approach.
Read MoreArts Fuse critics select the best in dance and music that’s coming up this week.
Read MoreThe first half of “The Broken Circle Breakdown” is directed in the most conventional way. In the better second half, the leads dig deeply into their characters, sing bluegrass wonderfully.
Read MorePeter Pullman deplores (without bathos) the wreckage of Bud Powell’s life and mourns (without tears) the consequent loss of so much masterful music. And his story of Powell’s life is even grimmer than the one we have previously been told.
Read MoreThis, my friends, is what 80 looks like.
Read MoreThe late Arthur Danto was open to and appreciative of all sorts of possibilities in art, as other visual arts critics were not.
Read MoreDirector/producers Andrew Cohn and Davy Rothbart have constructed a film that ties the desperation of Medora’s shrinking ambitions to the struggle of its scrappy team to win a single game that could suggest a small hope for the future.
Read MoreIn sum, this was one of those rare concerts in which everything clicked, musically and dramatically.
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Music Commentary: Capleton’s Redemption Song?
Capleton’s cancellation at Boston’s Hibernian Hall shows that reggae stars can’t easily escape their anti-gay discographies.
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