Jeff Rapsis

Film Interview: Jeff Rapsis’ Code of Silents

For the past decade, Jeff Rapsis has improvised live scores for silent films starring Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, and Douglas Fairbanks.

A rare opportunity to see — on the big screen — a film starring Boston-born silent comedian Raymond Griffith, a master of the debonair pratfall.

Debra A Wise June 3, 2020 at 8:23 pm on Theater Commentary: The Boston Theater Critics Association — Finally Reached a Conclusion?YES, I would like to reiterate what David says re Gloucester Stage under its current leadership. We need to reinvent...
Mark Favermann June 3, 2020 at 7:01 pm on Visual Arts Feature: A Walk in the City — Seeing Architectural Details and History in a Time of Covid-19No, I don't. I live/work in the adjacent carriage house (with turntable viewable from the basement) that was built about...
Allen Michie June 3, 2020 at 6:28 pm on Book Interview: Zena Hitz on the Pleasures and Values of the Intellectual Life“Renewing arts and letters will require vigilant attention to circumstances, cooperation and listening, real creativity, dogged stubbornness, and, frankly, the...
Susan Varon June 2, 2020 at 6:50 pm on Music Appreciation: Two American Musical Geniuses Named Steve, on Their Birthdays — Sondheim and WonderI was aware of Sondheim’s birthday celebration, and I also recommend it highly. I was not aware of Stevie Wonder’s...
David Greenham June 1, 2020 at 6:16 pm on Theater Commentary: The Boston Theater Critics Association — Finally Reached a Conclusion?The fact that the award is for "sustained excellence" says all you need to know BTCA. As Dr. King said...