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Dance Review: A Heartfelt “Cinderella” at Jacob’s Pillow

June 27, 2015
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Cinderella isn’t a lavish spectacle à la the Met, but rather, like its heroine, modest on the surface while pulsing with a generous heart underneath.

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Visual Arts Review: Harvard Art Museums Reborn – Spectacular Art in a New Showcase

November 18, 2014
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Starchitect Renzo Piano and his team did very well given their constraints. It is damn hard to build the right frame for so much abundant beauty.

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Arts Remembrance: Marianne Faithfull — A Singular Talent Who Pursued an Oft-Perilous Life

February 1, 2025
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The resolute British singer/actress survived addiction, homelessness, cancer and Covid, which left her in a coma before she completed work on her final album in 2021.

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Film Review: “Challengers” — Match Point

May 4, 2024
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“Challengers” is an exploration of eroticism in the broadest sense: the eroticism of competition, the sensuality of sport, and the messiness of human relationships.

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Film Review: “Psycho Goreman” – The Gory Adventures of Luke and Mimi

February 2, 2021
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A B-movie inspired horror-comedy, Psycho Goreman is a delightfully schlocky homage to entry-level, kid-centric horror films but with the sort of grotesque violence one would expect from a more adult-oriented movie.

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Film Review: “The Nest” — More Is Less

November 14, 2020
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The Nest is a personal story — unsettling, beautiful, moving and haunting — about that most public of sins: greed.

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Dance Highlights 2019

December 12, 2019
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The dance revolution of the 1960s and 70s seems to be making a comeback as dancers think about making their performances less artificial, more “natural.”

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Book Review: On “The Road to Unfreedom”?

August 22, 2018
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I say we need this book now, but the truth is we needed it even more a while ago.

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Theater Review: “Tiny Beautiful Things” — A Little Anonymity Can Bring Us Closer Together

September 30, 2019
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At its best, Tiny Beautiful Things delves deep into demanding emotional territory without becoming sappy or maudlin.

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Book Review: László Krasznahorkai’s “The World Goes On” — Migrations of the Spirit

March 6, 2018
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It is proof of the translators’ skill that Krasznahorkai’s sentences work as well as they do.

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