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Coming Attractions: December 7 through 22 — What Will Light Your Fire

December 7, 2025
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Our expert critics supply a guide to film, visual art, theater, author readings, television, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.

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Arts Remembrance: Tribute to Jazz Producer Alex Lemski

December 6, 2025
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Being a one-man or one-woman band while toiling in the shadows is not glamorous work. Over the last 13 years, producer Alex Lemski undertook this role and supplied a great deal of exciting, important music to the people of Boston.

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Book Review: “Razzle Dazzle” Minus Some of the Sparkle — John Lahr Profiles the Stars, and Himself

December 6, 2025
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If John Lahr could learn, even in his eighties, to cut back on his own self-adoration and stop being so damned star struck, the razzle in his profiles would dazzle all the more.

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Book Review: “Corrections At Work” — – Practical Reforms for Correctional Officers, Sidestepping Abolition

December 4, 2025
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When it comes to the aberrant conditions in today’s jails and prisons, concerns such as how corrections officers are regarded by their superiors in the system, the media, and the public are beside the point.

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Heavy Metal Preview: Converge Puts Together the Saddest Day 2025 Festival

December 8, 2025
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Converge bassist Nate Newton joked that, if it were left to him, he would have called this event “The Night of Seven Savage Weirdos”. Though when everything finally came together, even more weirdos were added to the mix.

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Theater Review: Midwinter Revels 2025 — Aglow with Music, Magic, and Hope

December 16, 2025
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The 2025 version of the Revels once again fills historic Sanders Theatre with comedy and music, while at the same time encouraging us to reflect on the things that are important in life — family, love, and the peaceful solitude of a cold winter’s night.

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AT DOC NYC: A Filmmaker’s Farewell to a Friend, Flophouse Vérité, and the Fight for “Female Viagra”

December 4, 2025
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A trio of good documentaries: Benita, Flophouse America, and The Pink Pill: Sex, Drugs and Who Has Control.

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Locke’s List for 2025: Notable Operatic Recordings and a Few Non-Operatic Ones

December 10, 2025
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First recordings of major works and splendid recordings of some others, from Handel to Raff and from Boston’s Musicians of the Old Post Road to the astonishing operatic soprano Aleksandra Kurzak.

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Popular Music Reviews: Ray Charles — The Quintessential Sound of American Popular Music

December 2, 2025
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Add these four remastered Ray Charles albums to your collection and remind yourself what the real thing sounds like when it finally comes along.

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Concert Review: Yo-Yo Ma and the Communion of Bach

November 28, 2025
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With youthful vigor, Yo-Yo Ma performed the complete  Bach Cello Suites, intermixing the music with stories of personal success, wishes for future generations, and gratitude for all those who make the Commonwealth function.

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