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What’s coming up now in this small gap between the Awards shows and the Film Festival Season? Lots! This month is a cornucopia of adventurous off-the-radar films. March features several great director’s series, Hong Kong, German, and Czech premieres, women directors, local directors, and a range of documentaries on music that you probably never heard of.
Read MoreBy James Marcus At its best, an opera about the death of Spanish writer Federico Garcia Lorca is a tour-de-force. Ainadamar, an opera by Osvaldo Golijov. (Deutsche Grammophon) For most composers, geography is destiny. Even Schoenberg — whose innovations were supposed to release music not only from its tonal prison but from the local idiom…
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Phoebe Bridgers has crafted a disc filled with pristine, meditative songs that carry a brutal emotional weight.
Read MoreLeif Ove Andsnes’ excellent all-Sibelius album is nothing short of revelatory; Borusan Quartet’s disc is creatively programmed and brilliantly played.
Read MoreAn Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.
Read MoreWith Vibrations: A Sound Experience, Boston CyberArts continued to live up to its demanding mandate — to expand our artistic horizons.
Read MoreAn engrossing film about the choices in life that we make — and don’t make — starring Rachel Weisz and Michael Shannon.
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“Poor Things” is a film in which the set designers are as much the auteurs as the director, to the detriment of the pathos that is at the heart of Alasdair Gray’s novel.
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In this splendid album, pianist Kristin Ditlow shares her love of the piano in melody-drenched works from many lands and peoples.
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Stage Commentary: Critical Limitations — And Theatrical Neglect
Boston theater critics value stage venues that are “convenient” and “familiar.”
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