In marathon season, after a marathon of coverage including the fictionalized film "Patriots Day" and the documentary play "Finish Line," the latest entry in the reportage of Boston's beloved race comes in first with the last word. My review here reprinted from The ARTery. "Boston" is the first feature length documentary film on [...]
ROGER WATERS MAKES HIS TRIUMPHANT RETURN TO NORTH AMERICA IN 2012 WITH HIS EXTRAORDINARY AURAL AND VISUAL MASTERPIECE:Ā āTHE WALLā THE WALL LIVE HITS BOSTONāS FENWAY PARK ON JULY 1 THIS UNFORGETTABLE CONCERT WILL CELEBRATE THE HISTORIC PARKāS 100TH ANNIVERSARY Roger Waters, the co-founder and principal songwriter of the archetypal progressive band Pink Floyd, has [...]
TWILIGHT: BREAKING DAWN is the single most effective antidote to teen pregnancy I've ever seen. It's cinematic birth control. Send your teenagers.Ā I saw it Monday afternoon in a theater with mostly single older ladies and one mother/daughter pair who apparently had not read the books; they looked shell-shocked as the credits rolled. The film [...]
"Dominoes, et dominoes, et dominoes Popsies historical axle-grease, exacts bubbly fins crock lavender..." Say what? It's a line from Tom Stoppard's DOGG'S HAMLET,Ā CAHOOT'S MACBETH.Ā Familiar plays-- but definitely strange in the hands of Tom Stoppard, who's reinterpreted them by inventing a new language! WHISTLER IN THE DARK THEATRE has mounted a spare, sure-handed production [...]
J.EDGAR-- Clint Eastwood's latest directorial effort--is a mess from every point of view with the exception of Leonardo DiCaprio. He is one brave actor. As J. Edgar Hoover-- the creator and first chief of the Federal Bureau of Investigation-- DiCaprio survives despite layers of makeup, a melodramatic jumble of a script, bad accents, and tonal [...]
I've been without power for three days and could barely wait to post this-- I finally saw one of the BEST MOVIES out there right now: MARGIN CALL which portrays a long hardĀ day in the life of an investment bankingĀ house -- not just any day-- the day in September 2008 when all the financial houses [...]
And speaking of drag queens (I was in my last post--See: THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW) the SpeakEasy Stage Company has mounted the New England Premiere of the Off-Broadway hit comedy THE DIVINE SISTER about one of my favorite subjects: nuns. I almost became one.Ā I ate slept and drank nuns. They lived next door to [...]
THE INFERNAL COMEDY John Malkovich's two-day gig presented by ArtsEmerson at the Paramount was fraught with tension. He played a serial killer back from the dead hawking his memoirs (Just once I'd like to see him play the normal neighbor next door.) with an orchestra playing arias from Vivaldi to Weber. In the course of [...]
RUN RUN RUN to the Huntington's 30th Anniversary season opener-- a rollicking, moving, brilliantly staged, lit, costumed, and transcendently performed, just plain GLORIOUS production of CANDIDE! This was my first response, and upon further reflection-- I liked it even more!!! It's as if all of life were captured onstage in one bursting-at-the-seams bundle in Tony [...]
