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Visual Arts Book Review: “Florine Stettheimer: A Biography” — One of American Art’s Greatest Enigmas
The volume’s overarching goal is to restore Florine Stettheimer to what the biographer sees as her rightful reputation as one of the great American artists of the 20th century.
Part of the nostalgia of seeing Joan Baez and Sting was the opportunity to relive the experiences of attending their concerts at a more youthful time in our lives.
The late Tommy Ramones’ drumming was as key as any component in the band’s makeup.
The world of tenors has expanded exponentially, it would seem, since the days when Luciano Pavoratti and Placido Domingo dominated the big tenor roles and the attention of the media and opera-loving public. Domingo, astonishingly, is still singing brilliantly, conducting, and running an opera company, but recently there have been a good half dozen excellent youngish tenors singing at the Met, including the fabulously gifted lyric tenor Matthew Polenzani.
So many of the truly gifted actors of the British stage and screen of the 1960s ‘kitchen sink’ dramas are rapidly leaving us. One of the best, Billie Whitelaw, departed this week.
The Tony accolades bestowed upon A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, will no doubt assure Darko Tresnjak’s future on Broadway.
The story has the earmarks of YA fiction: a community of dysfunctional adults contribute to the plight of alienated kids who, badgered by persecutors their own age, seek to escape their torment.
So why am I going to write about the Nuggets concert for a New England outlet? Because, totally surprising to me, there was a lot of Boston in the show.
For all of its sound and fury and smoke, the CSC’s version of King Lear is solid rather than surprising or exciting.
Arts Commentary/Interview: Some Thoughts on The Climate Crisis and Theater
How can we create theater that practices critique and empathy in relation to climate change that simultaneously challenges and lifts us, provokes and provides a muscular hope?
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