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It’s good to be king

TRIST takes Henry VIII outdoors
After being out of the local theater scene for a couple of decades, the Rhode Island Shakespeare Theater (TRIST) is back, staging an outdoor production of Henry VIII at the Roger Williams National Memorial Park, on North Main Street in Providence, through June 26.
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | June 15, 2010

Wizards and masterpieces

Harry Potter at the Museum of Science, and another look at the Rose
At “Harry Potter: The Exhibition” at the Museum of Science, when a robed attendant places the sorting hat on a visitor’s head and soon after a door whooshes open to reveal the Hogwarts Express, you find yourself filled with the kind of giddy expectation you feel when getting your hands on a Potter book the day it’s released.
By GREG COOK | November 06, 2009

Hootenanny!!

AS220’s ‘Do It! Show It! Sing It! Work It!,’ and Holly Ewald
It's not quite right to call "Do It! Show It! Sing It! Work It!" the AS220 biennial.
By GREG COOK | October 21, 2009

Exposures

Photos from Yousuf Karsh, William Christenberry, and the PRC
In "Karsh 100: A Biography in Images," which is now up at the Museum of Fine Arts, his iconic shots of Winston Churchill, George Bernard Shaw, and Ernest Hemingway are defining portraits of the men in all their crusty manliness.
By GREG COOK | November 14, 2008

Vast and intimate

Portland Stage’s masterful Caesar
PSC’s sophisticated and devastating interpretation of Julius Caesar reminds us of just how crucial it is that we keep our heads.
By MEGAN GRUMBLING | October 02, 2008

Mister Lonely

Weird meets revelatory unsuccessfully
Harmony Korine aspires to the weird and revelatory but too often achieves the merely creepy.
By PETER KEOUGH | May 07, 2008

War of independents

The Independent Film Festival of Boston fights for freedom of the screens
The IFFB is determined to wrest cinematic freedom from the imperial power of the Hollywood studios.
By PETER KEOUGH | April 22, 2008

Big in every way

‘El Greco to Velázquez’ at the MFA
Men in inky darkness. Men without women (save for the Blessed Virgin). Men in splendor, men in ecstasy, men without smiles. Men as saints but not as sinners.
By JEFFREY GANTZ | April 15, 2008

Bottled-spider web

Trinity’s Richard III; plus Shakespeare’s Actresses in America
Richard III is a thing of additions and subtractions.
By CAROLYN CLAY | February 05, 2008

Power mad

Trinity Rep’s timely Richard III
Trinity Repertory Company is staging a version of Richard III that comes at us like a Sherman tank.
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | February 05, 2008

Open city

The 2007 Toronto Film Festival
In the pioneering early-’80s days of the Toronto Film Festival, the audience actually rose before movie showings for a canned recording of “God Save the Queen.”
By GERALD PEARY | September 18, 2007

Rushdie’s courage

Why Sir Salman’s knighthood matters
Bombay-born Salman Rushdie, educated at Rugby and Cambridge, is now Sir Salman Rushdie.
By EDITORIAL | June 20, 2007

Circus maximus

The greatest show not of this Earth
The clown show at Little Rhody’s State House is the Greatest Show Not on Earth. This is due to how our politicians behave like they are on another planet.
By PHILLIPE AND JORGE | May 09, 2007

Royal pain

Mirren and Frears save The Queen
Every tragedy reaches a point where mourning turns to kitsch. Watch the trailer for The Queen (QuickTime)
By PETER KEOUGH | February 20, 2007

Doom, gloom and zoom

A year in film
Given the past year’s headlines, it can’t come as a surprise that some of the best films of 2006 had an edge of darkness to them.
By PETER KEOUGH | January 16, 2007

Off with their heads

Recent polls are giving the GOP the willies. So should the movies.
The signs are getting bleak for the man in the White House and the party in power.
By PETER KEOUGH | October 20, 2006

Greatest hits

Hits and misses
So that’s how World War II started.
By PETER KEOUGH AND PAUL BABIN | September 22, 2006

Just a gigolo

Sweet Bird of Youth ; The Merry Wives of Windsor ; The Price
Two guys on Berkshire stages are trying to parlay sexual prowess into deep pockets this week.
By CAROLYN CLAY | July 25, 2006

Eternal questions

The Beard of Avon at the Publick; Happy Days at Gloucester
Bard or beard — that is the question.
By CAROLYN CLAY | July 11, 2006

Bard or beard?

Shakespeare steps on the Publick stage
This season the Publick Theatre will be doing Shakespeare in the park with a twist.
By SALLY CRAGIN | June 20, 2006

Measure for measure

Ensemble Doulce Mémoire, Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake , Robert Spano’s Sibelius , H&H’s St. Matthew Passion
“Great Ball at the Court of France,” which Ensemble Doulce Mémoire presented at the First Congregational Church in Cambridge last Friday, under the auspices of the Boston Early Music Festival, was a reminder that classical music used to be all about two popular forms, song and dance.
By JEFFREY GANTZ | April 26, 2006