TV Commentary: A Little Real Talk about "Real Time"
Bill Maher's once robust contrarian streak has shriveled over time.
Bill Maher's once robust contrarian streak has shriveled over time.
Expanding Abstraction is a success because it does what it set out to do: to highlight the visions of New England's female abstract painters.
Conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin does dazzlingly right by the symphonies of Mendelssohn.
Given the country's current existential crisis, this genre-bending, ambitious-to-the-max debut novel about an uprising in Puerto Rico comes at the perfect time.
The interviewees sound warnings about how we have self-sorted, online and in the real world, into echo-chamber communities of like-minded people.
Children of the Wild's Daniel Shays is the ideal response to the once popular 19th century Ballad of Daniel Shays.
A romp in and around a centuries-old Italian convent, acting out a 14th-century story using contemporary American idiom and attitude.
Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual arts, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.
The Beguiled is a beautifully-shot, atmospheric thriller with a daring take on sexual autonomy and dynamics.
The CTC's first production of the summer is an unqualified delight.
Reading Little Kisses is reassuring -- and that is a valuable attribute given the times we are living in.
The history and process of judicial selection -- dispassionately detailed.
The odds have never been more stacked against a Summer of Love.
The idea of the project is to cross-fertilize new dance in the two cities (Boston and New York) by presenting choreography in cabaret settings.
Two stories about how a public process, because of politics, can make it very difficult, and costly, to connect two points.
These are men who appreciated women for their bodies, athleticism, motherhood, intelligence, and humor - all reasons to celebrate this show.
Wisely, guitarist John Mayer does not try to copy Jerry Garcia's memorable licks, solos, tones, and styles.
Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual arts, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.
Unfortunately, poetry doesn't sell and doesn't get made into movies.
Bolivian author Liliana Colanzi delivers some risky, but important, messages in these enigmatic stories.
In Trouble in Paradise, Lubitsch makes us feel complicit in the best of ways; he makes us feel clever.
Alan Brody's play is a pleasant valentine, and it will likely find a life in regional and community theaters.
A difficult balancing act: marrying art with the community-based traditions of everyday rural life.
If you want to see what courageous political satire really looks like, see Sara Taksler's engaging new documentary about Bassem Youssef.
Chuck Prophet's rollicking sound now is a lot more thoughtful than of yore -- without losing any of its rollick.