Remembrance: The Somber Artistry of Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen wrote with a mature poet's sense of compression and depth.
Leonard Cohen wrote with a mature poet's sense of compression and depth.
How Soft the Lining brings considerable emotional power to bear on its exploration of the complexities of American history.
Bill T. Jones considers himself an heir of the postmodern dancers.
Craig Atkinson's incendiary new documentary provides sobering food for thought on police brutality and intimidation in America.
The Last Laugh, directed by Ferne Pearlstein. Screening on Wednesday, November 16 at 6:30 p.m. and Thursday, November 17 at 1 p.m. at the Coolidge Corner Theatre; Saturday, November 19 at 9:…
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in theater, visual arts, film, music, author events, and dance for the coming week.
Giraldi was enticed by the fraternity of the gym as a way of filling out and firming up both his body and his sense of self.
Mark St. Germain's drama is not about Cold War politics, but the question of whether a great man is (or need be) a good man.
You're not supposed to look for deep meaning in this often-revised jumbo of a ballet.
The musical is a relentless, one hour and fifty minute excursion into the history of racial bias in America, from the cotton fields to the Civil Rights movement.
Kelly Reichardt's cinema gives us slow, rich portraits of life's daily rhythms, its frustrations and unresolved conflicts.
At 82, Cohen seems to feel that there isn't a lot of time left and that he has nothing to prove to anyone.
How refreshing it is to see a female protagonist whose strength of will and character are not of the superhuman variety.
Mark Greif's analyses can be sharply counter-intuitive, but once we absorb the meaning of his criticism there's less to go forward with than we expect.
Ballet steps from the classroom were sprinkled in with modern dance, moonwalking, shimmies, groping duets, and any other kind of movement.
Arts Fuse critics select the best in theater, visual arts, film, music, author events, and dance for the coming week.
Brand X was essentially a bunch of top-flight session men who got together to blow off steam, a UK version of Weather Report.
It's the wild mind of puppeteer Paul Zaloom that's really on display here.
Despite an appearance by Satan, this is not all that frightening a yarn for Halloween, but the MRT's production is absorbing nonetheless.
Sarah Ruhl attempts, but fails, to discover illuminating similarities between the powerful then and now.
The Murder of Sonny Liston is an absorbing, albeit speculative, attempt at addressing the mystery that died with the man.
Critic Douglas Crimp's autobiography provides an absorbing, microcosmic look into the early days of the 1970s New York art scene.
This is a theater of signals, like a fast-changing slide show of things we recognize and don't quite recognize.