Arts + Culture
Children born at Mount Auburn Hospital invited to meet “The Dot” author
From 2014 to 2016, babies born at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge were given a copy of the book “The Dot.” Now, its author Peter H. Reynolds is inviting those kids to meet him. Read more Cambridge historian, Somerville comics press honored with Massachusetts Book Awards The “Dot Kids,” as he calls them, are invited […]
Futures in flux at MIT and Harvard documentary film centers as founding leaders step down
The 2020s have been hard on Boston’s documentary film scene. In 2022, the LEF Foundation’s DocYard screening series went on indefinite hiatus; in 2024, the Bright Lights Cinema Series was cancelled after its curator, Anna Feder, was let go in what appeared to be a politically motivated dismissal. In comparison, last month’s leadership transitions at […]
Art horror, serial killer nonchiller, espionage comedy and a gorefest
“Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma” ⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 3 out of 4. In this latest art-horror curio from Jane Schoenbrun, the alt-indie hand behind psycho-chillers “We’re All Going to the World’s Fair” (2021) and “I Saw the TV Glow” (2024), the “Friday the 13th” film franchise and gender politics get skewered with bloody orgasmic […]
In “Rhinoceros,” whether to run with the herd is the question
At the start of the American Repertory Theater’s superb production of “Rhinoceros,” it’s a quiet morning in a French village, and Bergeron is late for coffee with his only friend, Jean. Read more Man killed by police identified But Jean (Paul Giamatti) knows Bergeron will be late and arrives late as well. The two could […]
Young poets are honored for ‘playful to inspiring’ works
This spring, for the 27th year, the city of Cambridge, Mass., awarded poetry prizes to a worthy group of aspiring poets in grades K–8. Of the more than 500 applicants, nominated mostly by teachers, 55 winners were chosen by a panel of youth services librarians. Read more Safety in The Port has always been a […]
You’ll have a gay old time at ‘One Long Earring’
“One Long Earring,” a play about a lesbian band from the 1990s looking to reunite after almost 30 years, has been called the lesbian “Spinal Tap.” It’s coming to the Crystal Ballroom at the Somerville Theatre this Sunday. Read more A tale of two liquor laws The cheeky comedy began as the pandemic brainchild of […]
The undead can be funny, new production proves
Central Square Theater resuscitates queer playwright Charles Ludlam’s most produced play, his 1984 “The Mystery of Irma Vep: A Penny Dreadful,” bringing it back to life in a hilarious production directed by David R. Gammons. Like the many “undead” characters that haunt it, the play refuses to stay buried. Read more Massachusetts’s slow adoption of […]