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Coming Attractions in Jazz: Fall 2011 Preview

September 9, 2011
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Autumn hasn’t officially arrived yet, but the fall season of jazz is already ramping up. First up are Mexican vocalist Magos Herrera, saxophonist Evan Parker, and a tribute to the late Joe Maneri.

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Theater Commentary: Who’s Afraid of the Antiwar Play?

December 28, 2007
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by Bill Marx What particularly disappointed Boston Globe theater critic Louise Kennedy about the Huntington Theatre Company’s recent production of David Rabe’s Streamers was that it lacked the emotional impact of the 1976 staging of the script. She found it “painful because that earlier production clearly resonated with its audiences as a powerful antiwar statement,…

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Classical Music Review: It’s ‘Sick Puppy’ Time

June 18, 2009
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By Caldwell Titcomb Attention has shifted from the very old to the very new: the Boston Early Music Festival ended on June 14, and June 13 saw the start of the eight-day 2009 Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice at the New England Conservatory (NEC).

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Classical Music Review: Gergiev Comes to Town

March 27, 2009
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By Caldwell Titcomb Conductor Valery Gergiev’s podium demeanor is rather bizarre, but his musicianship is first-class. Valery Gergiev is one of the busiest musicians in the world. Among other assignments the 55-year-old conductor has headed the Mariinsky Theatre (formerly the Kirov Opera) for two decades, is principal guest conductor of the Metropolitan Opera in New…

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Want a Book Tour? Go to Italy

February 15, 2009
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By Helen Epstein, World Books contributor A Busy Bookstore in Perugia. Last month I was invited to Italy where a university press published my family and social history of Central European Jewish women “Where She Came From.” For 12 days, I traveled from Rome to Trieste to Udine to Milan then Perugia on a book…

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Theater Review: “Deep Blue Sound” — The Everyday Tragedy of Inaction

September 8, 2025
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It’s likely, the playwright suggests, that Americans are incapable of getting out of their own way long enough to cooperate in ways that do anything about the challenges that we face as a society and a country, let alone the world.

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Television Review: HBO’s “Perry Mason” — American Justice, with Loose Ends

July 24, 2020
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The parallel plot — maybe the real plot — percolates just below the surface: the meta-textual challenge of figuring out how the HBO Perry Mason will morph into something resembling its CBS progenitor.

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Book Review: “Back to Back” — A Powerful Portrait of East German Trauma, Personal and Political

January 11, 2014
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Using her family’s history as a springboard, Julia Franck has created exemplary figures forced to navigate the treacherous shoals of her country’s history.

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The Arts on Stamps of the World — December 11

December 11, 2017
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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

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Music Review – Dave Liebman Group: Unstoppable

September 25, 2010
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I’m willing to risk this statement: Dave Liebman’s 2009 CD Turnaround, as yet unreleased in the US, is a masterpiece. Turnaround. Jazzwerkstatt CD; currently not distributed in the US; obtainable through amazon.de, €10.16 + shipping); live performance at Scullers at the DoubleTree Guest Suites, Boston, MA, September 16, 2010. Reviewed by Steve Elman I can…

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