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Play by play: January 15, 2010

Theater listings, January 15, 2010
Boston's weekly theater schedule

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | January 13, 2010

Play by play: January 8, 2010

Plays from A to Z
Boston's theater schedule: January 8, 2010

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | January 06, 2010

Play by Play: January 1, 2010

Plays from A to Z
Boston's weekly theater listings: January 1, 2010

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | December 30, 2009

Play by play: December 25, 2009

Theater listings, December 25, 2009
Boston's weekly theater schedule

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | December 23, 2009

Leader of the Pack
The funniest moments of Cesar Millan's PackPower Tour show at Agganis Arena last Sunday came during intermission, when the three big video screens showed a snippet from "Tsst," the South Park parody episode where the Dog Whisperer goes up against Cartman.

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | December 16, 2009

Review: The Christmas Revels

Revels takes us back to our roots
" 'Tis a gift to be simple," goes the beginning of the Shaker hymn "Simple Gifts," and it's been taken to heart in the 39th annual production of The Christmas Revels (at Sanders Theatre through December 27). The theme this year is America — Shaker America, Appalachian America, African-American America, and Native American America.

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | December 15, 2009

Book Review: The Tin Drum

Günter Grass and Tin Drum 2
There are — and have always been — two Günter Grasses. There's the Grass who was born in Danzig and the Grass who was born in Gdansk.

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | December 15, 2009

Play by play: December 18, 2009

Theater listings, week of December 18
Boston's weekly theater listings

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | December 16, 2009

Interview: Cesar Millan

The Dog Whisperer comes to Boston
"Pit bulls are not bred for healing people, or for healing dogs. But because I channel the energy into something more humane, they're using all this pit-bull energy into really making it happen."

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | December 09, 2009

Review: La Danse: Le Ballet de L'Opéra de Paris

Tough love from Frederick Wiseman
Frederick Wiseman's documentary is a love letter to Paris, to the Palais Garnier opera house (the Bastille gets a cameo), and the Paris Opera Ballet.

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | December 09, 2009

Play by Play: December 12, 2009

Plays from A to Z
Boston theater listings: December 12, 2009

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | December 09, 2009

Is it magic yet?

Boston Ballet's Nutcracker
When you've seen every Boston Ballet Nutcracker for the past 20-odd years, and reviewed most of them, it can get a little hard to locate the magic. Then again, when you survey other Nutcracker s around the world you appreciate that there's no place like home, and not many that are as good.

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | December 02, 2009

Play by Play: December 4, 2009

Plays from A to Z
Boston's weekly theater schedule

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | December 02, 2009

Play by play: November 20, 2009

Plays from A to Z
Boston's weekly theater listings

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | November 18, 2009

Play by Play: November 13, 2009

Plays from A to Z
Boston's weekly theater schedule

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | November 11, 2009

Review: Severed Ways: The Norse Discovery of America

Imagine if Ingmar Bergman had made The Blair Witch Project
Tony Stone’s “love letter to the Vikings’ discovery of the New World, pagan iconography, brute manliness, and simpler times” is set in the simpler (?) time of 1007 AD.

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | November 04, 2009

Review: Bad Boy Made Good

The revival of George Anthiel's 1924 Ballet méchanique
If Igor Stravinsky’s Sacre du printemps paved the way for modern rock, then George Antheil’s Ballet mécanique made possible every genre of contemporary music with “noise” or “metal” in its name.

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | November 03, 2009

Play by play: November 6, 2009

Boston theater listings, November 6, 2009
Boston's weekly theater listings

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | November 04, 2009

Play by play: October 30, 2009

Plays around town
Boston's weekly theater schedule

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | October 28, 2009

Both ears and the tail for this Carmen

Boston Ballet's 'World Passions'
"World Passions," the collection of four works that Boston Ballet opened at the Opera House last night, was more pleasant than passionate until Kathleen Breen Combes sashayed out as the title character in Jorma Elo's Carmen .

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | October 28, 2009

The Brother Thomas Fellows

Good news for a change
“Art is something seen about something unseen,” is one way Brother Thomas Bezanson described his calling.

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | October 21, 2009

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