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Film Review: An Insouciant Double Bill — Rita Hayworth meets Fred Astaire

August 4, 2018
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Womanizing Astaire grasps that Rita is the loveliest catch of all, and a keeper, in this musical treat.

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Classical Music Review: Tallis Scholars — Dependable Delight

December 12, 2018
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The Tallis Scholars are unquestionably today’s most renowned exponent of Renaissance sacred music.

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Theater Review: Flat Earth’s “Antigone” — Inspired, But Flawed

April 3, 2018
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Flat Earth Theatre’s staging of Antigone was filled with strong performances and provocative ideas.

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Film Feature: Talking to Author Kim Barker About “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot”

March 3, 2016
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Whiskey Tango Foxtrot is based on Kim Barker’s account of her experience as a journalist and single woman in Afghanistan.

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Theater Review: “Back the Night” — A Strong Play about Sexual Assault on Campus

February 22, 2016
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No one I know is neutral about this kind of material and I was pleased to watch a play that did not shrink from its many complexities and challenges.

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Film Review: “Troublemakers” — Aesthetic Agitation on a Gargantuan Scale

January 14, 2016
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Land art is an outgrowth of the rebellious ’60s; radicalism taking the form of ambitious topographical rearangment.

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Fuse Concert Review: J. Geils Band and Ian Hunter — Funky Humor, Street Wisdom, and Sweaty Groove

August 29, 2015
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You could walk from Inman Square to Harvard, see Muddy Waters or John Lee Hooker play, and have your whole worldview changed.

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Theater Review: “Bad Jews” — Lots of Sound and Fury

October 31, 2014
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The play’s lead characters – representing polar opposites, cultural versus religious Judaism – ultimately exhaust one another, and us.

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CD Review: SHUFFLE Concert — An Inspired Experiment in “Musical Democracy”

February 23, 2014
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SHUFFLE Concert has invented their own distinctive rules to performance, and their innovative approach, with its inspired programming, has been a hit.

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Book Review: “Lessons from Sarajevo” — Talking About What War Means

October 22, 2013
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In this powerful book, Jim Hicks explores a collection of narratives about the experience of war in many genres and a wide range of media that eschew the sentimental.

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