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The Chair Man

A major Breuer retrospective opens at RISD
It is one of the icons of 20th-century design. What distinguishes Marcel Breuer's B34 armchair from 1928 is its materials (fabric seats slung between steel tubing) and the lack of rear legs.

By: GREG COOK | April 15, 2009

Old horse, new saddle

Trinity Rep finds importance in Earnest
But what about this matter of throwing a saddle on an old warhorse again? Well, the rider this time around thinks that the play is still as frisky as a colt. She hasn't directed this before, but she has seen it five or six times.

By: BILL RODRIGUEZ | April 07, 2009

The moving pictures

David Polonsky and the Festival of Contemporary Animation
There are moments when, by coincidence or an aligning of the stars, something amazing accidentally comes together. Here in Providence, next week is one of those times.

By: GREG COOK | April 07, 2009

Slideshow: Contemporary animation in Providence

Waltz with Bashir art director speaks, plus Festival of Contemporary Animation
Next week in Providence, two unrelated but complimentary events combine to create one of the finest showcases of contemporary animation that you’ll probably find anywhere in North America this year. And it’s all free.

By: GREG COOK | April 09, 2009

Life and how we live it

The Other Shore searches for meaning
We're far too close to life to see it accurately, aren't we? With noses pressed up against our problems and delights, we need our perceptive artists — such as Chinese playwright Gao Xingjian — to remind us of what's really going on.

By: BILL RODRIGUEZ | April 07, 2009

The show's the thing

A Chorus Line lifts spirits at PPAC
Admittedly, other musicals had to come before it for A Chorus Line to make any sense. But apart from that, the essence of musical theater is all there in this frisky colt of a theatrical warhorse.

By: BILL RODRIGUEZ | April 01, 2009

Review: The Rocket that Fell to Earth

Roger Clemens's fall and rise and fall
On July 18, 1992, in a celebrated post-game meltdown at the Metrodome in Minneapolis, the pitcher formerly known as the Rocket expressed his displeasure over a column I had written.

By: GEORGE KIMBALL | April 01, 2009

Southern Exposure

Fusionworks gets 'Unwrapped'
Since Fusionworks Dance Company has maintained a studio in East Greenwich for almost five years, artistic director Deb Meunier decided it was time to bring dance to South County.

By: JOHNETTE RODRIGUEZ | March 31, 2009

Lows, highs, and middles

A mixed bag at the RISD Museum
Yousuf Karsh is one of the giants of portrait photography.

By: GREG COOK | March 24, 2009

A living history

Twilight revists the King riots
Since Anna Deavere Smith's Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 is set in a specific place and time, some theatergoers will want to relegate its incidents and attitudes — which surround the Rodney King riots — to history.

By: BILL RODRIGUEZ | March 24, 2009

Muddled musical

A mostly rotten Scoundrels
We sure do love our stage rascals.

By: BILL RODRIGUEZ | March 24, 2009

Home unsweet home

2nd Story's The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
European existentialist philosophers grandly designated fear and trembling — and subsets — as the default state of the human condition.

By: BILL RODRIGUEZ | March 18, 2009

Interview: Mitch Fatel

Fatel hates the Yankees, loves stand-up
Given that he was once an intern for Howard Stern, it's not too surprising that comedian Mitch Fatel is all about clits and tits, and assorted lady bits – not the stuff that feminists would gleefully shave their legs over.

By: SARA FAITH ALTERMAN | March 19, 2009

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BOSTON'S BEST FOOD AND DRINK 2009
The danger of doing an annual Best issue is that readers could well screw up the whole thing, especially when it comes to eating out. It would suck if they voted for the too-familiar national-chain eateries. Best Hamburger: McDonalds?!

SLIDESHOW: KINGS OF LEON AT AGGANIS ARENA
Kings of Leon, live at Agganis Arena

KINKY BOSTON
A small audience settles in to a few rows of plastic chairs to watch a woman named Jen get spanked — but not as voyeurs. They're students. And this is Sadomasochism 101.

SLIDESHOW: BOSTON TEA PARTY 2009
Protestors assembed at the Commons for the Boston Tea Party 2009, also called Tea Bagging Day

MAN BITES NEWSPAPER
It's not news that newspapers are in huge trouble — victims of technological change and a mini-depression. What is news is the unadorned glee that is greeting the demise of newsprint.

KINKY BOSTON
A small audience settles in to a few rows of plastic chairs to watch a woman named Jen get spanked — but not as voyeurs. They're students. And this is Sadomasochism 101.

INTERVIEW: DAME EDNA
"People like the fact that I'm not needy. I think it's a very unappealing thing in the theater."

SCHIZOPHRENIA CONVENTION
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OUR LOCAL HEROES
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INTERVIEW: JONATHAN KATZ
The moment I step into the Newton home / sound studio of comedian Jonathan Katz, he warns me that he's a show-off and invites me to admire his kitchen.