Artist Stephane Cardon is using a large artwork to tell a simple message: Climate change is a pressing, unavoidable crisis that we must take fast action to remediate. Her 3,400-square-foot piece in the entryway of the Prudential Center uses vibrantly colored construction debris netting, a sustainable choice of material. Cardon is also a professor […]
THE SALONNIÈRES AIMS FOR BITING CRITIQUE, HITS DATED COMMENTARY
★★☆☆☆ It’s easy to see what the set of The Salonnières is trying to do. It’s an opulent room filled with ornate couches and chairs—Renaissance paintings hung on the walls. But the most striking aspect of this set, designed by Katy Monthei, is its boundaries. The room is set on a raised stage […]
ALL THINGS TO ALL MEN: EQUIVOCATION BY THE ACTORS’ SHAKESPEARE PROJECT
★★★★☆ Beneath the cavernous gothic arches of a church nave, two men sit hunched over a wooden table. “Your works will last,” Prime Minister Robert Cecil tells Master Shagspeare in the opening scene of Equivocation. “I believe your plays will still be being done … 50 years from now,” he guesses, to the […]
A SOARING FUN HOME AT SPEAKEASY STAGE
★★★★☆ Based on the 2006 best-selling graphic memoir of the same title by Alison Bechdel, Fun Home recreates Bechdel’s childhood and adolescent memories: how she loved drawing and despised dresses, how she came out in college, and how, a few months after revealing her sexuality to her parents, her father killed himself by […]
QUEERING CLASSIC HORROR: MILKY WAY COFFEE ROASTER’S NOSFERATU, THE VAMPYR
A few months ago, Sloth Levine and Katie Grindeland, co-production designers of the upcoming Milky Way Coffee Roasters’ production, “Nosferatu, the Vampyr,” had no idea they would be doing a show this month. They didn’t even have a full script. When, almost jokingly, one of Grindeland’s co-workers offered her the chance to use the black […]
CARRIE MAE WEEMS SOLO SHOW IMPRESSES AT BOSTON COLLEGE
Strategies of Engagement at McMullen Museum of Art Our current political storm is exposing how few people (myself included) have a solid knowledge of the history of racism in America. Books like The Strange Career of Jim Crow, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience, or Hope in the Dark are replacing the navel-gazing […]
AT NEW REP, WE WILL NOT BE SILENT CAN’T BE HEARD ABOVE ITS OWN NOISE
★★☆☆☆ When We Will Not Be Silent opens on an interrogation room, it’s not too far of a stretch to assume that, at the same time the characters ask questions of each other, the play will ask questions of the audience. But when We Will Not Be Silent spends just as much time […]
THE UNRAVELLING OF AN AMERICAN FAMILY: ALL MY SONS AT PRAXIS STAGE
★★★☆☆ Before the lights go up on Praxis Stage’s season opener—a production of Arthur Miller’s All My Sons— theatergoers shuffling to their seats are subjected to a few jazz standards from the ’30s and ’40s. “If it’s a crime then I’m guilty, guilty of loving you,” a warbling voice admits from a speaker […]
MAINE EVENT: PAGU MAKES A SUPER FINE LOBSTER ROLL
People all over the US labor under many misapprehensions about the Boston area—to the extent they think about us at all. One of the worst of these is the idea that lobster rolls are a local delicacy. Or that Bostonians eat them all the time. Or that we have lots of joints that specialize […]
FOTOBOM: THERE’S NO LEAVING NEW YORK
At first glance, The National might not strike one as a band who command a following that fills arenas. The group’s literate, self-effacing gloom certainly lends itself to a certain cultish devotion, but few artists making music that sounds this way have translated the approach into the clout to personally curate and headline a […]
