A QUESTION OF COMEUPPANCE? With their latest offering in an ambitiously political season, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company (CSC) tackles the modern classic Death and the Maiden by Chilean playwright Ariel Dorfman. Set in an unnamed country still reeling from the aftermath of a totalitarian dictatorship, this riveting psychological thriller pits a former political […]
A LOVELY SOUVENIR
Souvenir returns to the Lyric a decade later After 20 years as producing artistic director of the Lyric Stage Company of Boston, there’s plenty of material that Spiro Veloudos could have chosen for the production that would commemorate his milestone. For Boston’s resident Stephen Sondheim expert, I’d have put my money on any […]
FROM ‘UNADAPTABLE’ TO SPECTACULAR
Eliott Purcell readies The Curious Incident for SpeakEasy Stage The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time isn’t just one of the biggest nonmusical Broadway hits in recent memory, but rather of the last decade. Running for almost 800 performances and winning five Tony Awards, The Curious Incident is the longest-running Broadway play […]
BEAUTIFUL EXIT: OUTGOING ISABELLA GARDNER MUSEUM DIRECTOR REFLECTS BACK
In her first six months on the job, two thieves dressed as police officers entered the museum and stole over $500 million worth of art in the now infamous Isabella Gardner Museum heist.
INTERVIEW: “EX-MACHINA” DIRECTOR ALEX GARLAND ON THE BULLSHIT OF FILM CULTS
Most claims to artistic ownership of a film boil down to marketing plots and ego trips. In other words, they’re total bullshit.
‘NECESSARY MONSTERS’ IS ECCENTRIC AND ESSENTIAL
More than just an exercise in avant-imagination, “Necessary Monsters” is blisteringly funny and critical.
