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A selkie romance, a dubious life coach, and three couples in crisis: love takes some strange turns at this year’s Woodstock Film Festival.
On “To Oscar With Love,” the jazz vocalist brings warmth, wit, and a fresh perspective to twelve songs by an underappreciated master storyteller.
The Huntington Theatre Company’s staging of Aaron Sorkin’s adaptation finds fresh complexity in Harper Lee’s moral hero, even as uneven performances and distracting choices diminish its power.
A brutally nasty Gotham revenge tale turns a minor Batman villain into the stuff of a major body-horror surprise.
A filmmaker’s interest in a laid-off worker draws two couples into an intimate, uneasy tangle of money, power, and desire.
Mark H. Dold brings force and sensitivity to Barrington Stage Company’s compelling, uneven production, but the solo format undercuts Chekhov’s psychological complexity.
Sprawling, sexually frank, and often harrowing, “The Disappearers” turns the enforced secrecy of gay life in Jamaica into richly layered fiction.
In “A Dead White,” Wendy S. Walters blends memoir and cultural history to question the ubiquity—and presumed innocence—of white paint.
Book Appreciation: “Gulliver’s Travels” at 300 — Small Men, Tech Bro Delusions
Jonathan Swift’s satire of power, flattery, and human folly feels uncomfortably at home in the age of Trump and artificial intelligence.
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