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Dance Review: Mark Morris Redux

May 18, 2012
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Mark Morris, no longer dancing, joined his company for the curtain call. He’s beloved here, a part of the contemporary dance scene in Boston over the decades as a performer, a choreographer for the Boston Ballet, a teacher, and an inspiration to a number of local performers.

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Classical Music Review: A Choral Farewell

May 27, 2008
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By Caldwell Titcomb The Cambridge Community Chorus (CCC) was founded in 1990, and has in the past 18 years grown in size and skill under the leadership of William Ethaniel Thomas. Thomas is retiring from his post and led his farewell concert in Sanders Theatre on May 25 before an enthusiastic audience. For his final…

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Classical Music Review: New England Philharmonic

May 6, 2008
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By Caldwell Titcomb Two important twentieth-century pieces and a work-in-progress made up the final program of the season offered by the New England Philharmonic at the Tsai Performance Center on April 26, with Richard Pittman on the podium. A painting by E. Prampolini inspired by Bela Bartok’s “The Miraculous Mandarin”

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Film Review: “Thunderbolts*” — A Great Time at the Movies

May 6, 2025
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It’s pretty interesting that we live in a moment in which our comic-book obsessed culture is creating a number of antagonists based on the premise of, “Hey, what if Superman were emotionally stunted and really evil?”

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Book Review: “Hard to Watch” — How to Love Demanding Films

October 15, 2024
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“Hard to Watch” lays out a pragmatic path — directions for how to preserve your time and attention —  that will help just about anybody engage with any kind of art thoughtfully and purposefully.

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Doc Talk: From Revolution to De-evolution at the Nantucket Film Festival

June 17, 2024
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The documentaries “War Game” and “Devo” take up the topic of insurrection, political and cultural.

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Rock Album Review: Kim Gordon’s “The Collective” — Ensnared in Anxieties

March 8, 2024
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The album’s layers of thick and swampy sound make Kim Gordon’s anxious point.

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Film Review: “Joker: Folie à Deux” — “Morning in America” as Musical Nightmare

October 3, 2024
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This is a work of towering, masterful, sustained cinematic rage set at the dawn of the Reagan Era.

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WATCH CLOSELY: “The White Lotus” — Decadence and Dalliance

November 19, 2022
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The second season of The White Lotus is decidedly darker than the first, and the air of decadence and luxury is overshadowed by a disturbing aura of danger, even evil.

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Concert Review: Newport Jazz Festival 2021 — A Musical Affirmation

August 3, 2021
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Both Newport festivals rose to the challenge of restoring live music in a year that made it difficult and welcome.

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