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Review: Daydream's Buster Keaton: Fade To Black

Laugh to keep from crying
In his time — the silent film era — he was more popular than Charlie Chaplin. Buster Keaton: Fade to Black does a fascinating job making clear to us why that was so, as Daydream Theatre Company presents it at Bell Street Chapel through April 16.
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | April 05, 2011

Gilded stage

Monmouth shifts time with Twelfth Night
In the Theater at Monmouth's Twelfth Night , the Bard's gender-bending foibles play out in a proscenium within a proscenium — or, more strictly speaking, a sound stage within a proscenium:
By MEGAN GRUMBLING | July 29, 2009

Play by Play: June 26, 2009

Plays for A to Z
Boston theater this week
By JEFFREY GANTZ | June 23, 2009

Play by Play: June 19, 2009

Plays from A to Z
Boston theater this week
By JEFFREY GANTZ | June 16, 2009

Play by Play: June 12, 2009

Plays from A to Z
Boston theater this week
By JEFFREY GANTZ | June 11, 2009

Steven Wright | I Have a Pony

Warner Bros. (2009)
"I used to be a parking attendant in Boston at Logan Airport. I parked jets. They let me go, though, 'cause I kept locking the keys in them."
By TED DROZDOWSKI | June 09, 2009

Play by Play: June 5, 2009

Plays A to Z
Boston's theater schedule
By JEFFREY GANTZ | June 02, 2009

Killing me softly

'This Is Killing Me,' Guy Ben-Ner, and George Cochrane at Mass MoCA
A sailor is mopping the deck of a large vessel when a fellow shipmate approaches. Suddenly, the shipmate climbs onto a wooden chair, reaches for the refrigerator, and swings the freezer door smack in the face of the hard-working deckhand, who collapses onto the tile floor. Such is the world of Israeli artist Guy Ben-Ner.
By EVAN J. GARZA | May 07, 2009

Lost in translation

Digital language and Mexican modernism mark the season
Spring can't come soon enough, since it'll be bringing with it some engaging museum shows in and around Boston.
By EVAN J. GARZA | March 19, 2009

Review: The Secret of the Grain

Food for thought
The secret of The Grain is patience
By PETER KEOUGH | February 19, 2009

Quantum mechanic

Little Solace for Bond fans
Little Solace for Bond fans
By PETER KEOUGH | November 14, 2008

Cherchez les femmes

Women dominate the 13th Annual Boston French Film Festival
Women have always dominated French cinema — just not from behind the camera.
By PETER KEOUGH | July 01, 2008

The belle boy

Audrey Tautou goes slumming in Hors de prix
Precious, rather than priceless, is the word that comes to mind when describing Audrey Tautou.
By PETER KEOUGH | April 09, 2008

Dave Douglas and Keystone

Moonshine | www.greenleafmusic.com
Moonshine borrows its title (and, ostensibly, its mood) from a Fatty Arbuckle film, one co-starring Buster Keaton.
By JEFF TAMARKIN | April 01, 2008

Free culture: what it is, why it matters

Copyright reform in the digital age
“Copyright law has successfully stopped artists in the past from releasing sample-based works, but I don't think anything could stop me from making it," says Gregg Gillis, a/k/a Girl Talk.
By JOE BERNARDI | November 19, 2007

Live Free or Die Hard

The franchise proves aptly named
The Die Hard series was about as animated as Rocky’s face until director Len Wiseman restored it to its kinetic essence.
By PETER KEOUGH | June 27, 2007