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British playwright Alan Ayckbourn does not build gag machines that spit out one-liners. He creates finely etched characters whose humor is rooted in their befuddled behavior and personalities.
Read MoreArts Fuse Critics pick the best in music albums this year. Feel free to agree, disagree, and add your own favorites.
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Two takes on the orchestral music of Prokofiev — one impish and unpretentious, the other revelatory.
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Cruella is by far the best of the Disney reboots.
Read MoreCohen devotes little space to Bernard Berenson’s art historical methodology, now largely superseded by modern approaches. She relates Berenson’s less admirable qualities without judging them.
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Pianist Yulianna Avdeeva’s recording of Dmitri Shostakovich’s Preludes & Fugues is a testament to that rarest of syntheses: a total identification of a musician with her repertoire. Pianist Marc-André Hamelin and the Takács Quartet release an album that, on so many levels, is simply a joy.
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In this book, Naomi Klein shines a light on the path to a politically and economically just model of sustainability.
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Here is what a smart, savvy viewer who likes high-quality entertainment is looking forward to on TV this year.
Read More“Criticism will always have the force of the child in the story about the emperor’s new clothes, because there will always be naked emperors who everybody says are wearing today’s Crown Jewels.” — Eric Bentley
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Arts Commentary: Small Business Administration — Cut the Red Tape and Distribute Fed Money to Shuttered Venues!
Boston’s independent theatres and music venues are joining thousands from around the country to call on the Small Business Administration to immediately release Shuttered Venue Operators Grant funds.
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