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Updated. The year 1962, the terminus of Richard Vacca’s new history of Boston jazz, marked an end to an era. Fifty years later, with the cutbacks in jazz programming at WGBH, are we approaching a similar inflection point?
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It’s hard to convey what a benison these books have been to me, as I’ve read them in my narrow, monkish bed late into the night.
Read MoreDirector Sachs calls “Your Day is My Night” a “hybrid documentary,” with real-life stories told by middle-aged and elderly Chinese immigrants presented in a honed, often theatrical, style rather than as verité oral histories.
Read MoreThe latest play by the celebrated Israeli writer A.B. Yehoshua is a historical drama that revolves around an imaginary conversation between two major political rivals about Zionism and the founding of Israel. Israeli Stage is presenting the American premiere of a staged reading of the script.
Read MoreAlthough I was quadruply nervous—about my historical and art-historical knowledge, my Dutch, my speaking voice, and my presence of mind—I enjoyed the tapings for the radio and have no reason to think that I committed any terrible gaffes. By Gary Schwartz My late Sunday mornings over the past decades have been torn between quiet work…
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There was an easy depth to the music, if such is possible, as if the musicians were digging in hard, but with the relaxed assurance that comes of a shared vision.
Read MoreThe 1930s urban update of “Cinderella” proffers some clumsiness, but the dancing by the expert members of the Mariinsky Ballet is a treat.
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Pepperland serves up the expected tie-dye nostalgia, keyed to a half-dozen Beatle tunes from the classic album.
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A review of two fine backstage (or offstage) comedies at the Berlinale — “Blue Moon” and “Koln 75”.
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Film Commentary: “Pride and Prejudice” — The Nature of Love, 20 Years On
Joe Wright’s 2005 adaptation of Jane Austen was a cultural tipping point; he was the bold standard bearer for what has become a spirited new form of historical cinema.
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