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Theater Review: Freedom for “The Whipping Man”

March 11, 2012
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An unusual and powerful historical drama that looks at the troubled relationship between Jews and freed slaves at the end of The Civil War.

Rock Album Review: From the Vaults — Miltown’s “Tales of Never Letting Go” Holds Up After 25 Years

September 16, 2025
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Super-talented band with sharp material, big label backing, hot-shot producer, top-shelf recording studio—what could go wrong? Plenty.

Jazz Preview: The Scene Lives! — Local Jazz in the Months to Come

September 27, 2022
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Get out there and hear some live music. It’s the best gift you can give to your ears.

Dance/Movie Review: Heart Throbs — “Ballet Russes”

November 26, 2005
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I enjoyed the movie —- critics from outside the dance world have found Ballet Russes charming, too — but the filmmakers’ real gifts are the oral histories that they collected from these dancers just before it was too late.

Film Review: “True Story” — A Failed Whodunit

April 22, 2015
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True Story relies far too heavily on answering the formulaic question ‘Did he do it?’

Book Review: Film Director Preston Sturges — The Reluctant Auteur

February 6, 2023
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This incisive, compelling, and spirited analysis of the screwball maestro’s life and oeuvre illuminates the art of an overlooked genius.

Theater Review: Chaim Potok’s “The Chosen” — Brought Memorably to Life on Stage

July 23, 2013
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The agile hand of adaptor and director Aaron Posner has given us a production of Chaim Potok’s novel “The Chosen” that our children and grandchildren must see.

Album Review: Tame Impala’s “The Slow Rush” — Inspired by the Passage of Time

March 13, 2020
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At its best, The Slow Rush features catchy, energetic, and danceable tracks at the service of lyrical ruminations on dark topics, such as uncertainty and the inevitable passage of time.

Theater Interview: Actor Marc Labrèche — On Robert Lepage’s “Needles and Opium”

March 30, 2015
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“It is just when we delve deeper into the sorrows of our lives, the sorrows we have all endured, that our humor saves us.”

Book Review: “Unterstadt” — A Nightmare Journey Into ‘The Lower City’

August 14, 2024
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“Unterstadt” is valuable, and not only because it memorably excavates a repressed episode in Croatian history. The novel also has considerable relevance, given the savagery besieging the innocent in today’s conflagrations.

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