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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

Crossword: ''Rumble in the Bowl''

Part of this unbalanced breakfast.
Part of this unbalanced breakfast.
By MATT JONES | July 03, 2010

Review: The Sun

The shades close for Emperor Hirohito
No sun is in sight in the beginning of Aleksandr Sokurov’s look at the last days of divinity for Emperor Hirohito.
By PETER KEOUGH | March 23, 2010

History plays

The Good Negro from Company One; Harriet Jacobs in Central Square; Indulgences at New Rep
Tracey Scott Wilson manages to knock off Martin Luther King Jr.'s halo without removing the glow.
By CAROLYN CLAY | January 29, 2010

Play by play: July 31, 2009

Plays from A to Z
Boston's weekly theater schedule
By JEFFREY GANTZ | July 29, 2009

Northern exposure

Four Boston funnymen tell some jokes at Montreal's Just for Laughs festival, and prove that comedy is more than just getting-r-done
While New York is grittier, Los Angeles juicier, and Boston is wicked smahter, for some odd reason it is Montreal that, for two weeks every summer, becomes the epicenter of the comedy universe.
By SARA FAITH ALTERMAN | July 29, 2009

Play by play: July 24, 2009

Plays from A to Z
Boston's weekly theater schedule
By JEFFREY GANTZ | July 22, 2009

Play by play: July 17, 2009

Plays from A to Z
Boston's theater schedule
By JEFFREY GANTZ | July 15, 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

Crossword: ''Go digital''

Turning over a new page
Turning over a new page
By MATT JONES | April 01, 2009

Regifting

Aurelia's Oratorio; All About Christmas Eve; How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical
Aurelia's Oratorio; All About Christmas Eve; How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical
By CAROLYN CLAY | December 12, 2008

Crossword: ''On an axis''

From one end to the other
From one end to the other
By MATT JONES | September 24, 2008

Fall on the boards

From A Chorus Line to Tennessee Williams and the Grinch
There are tours to the former Czechoslovakia, Romania, Italy, Iraq, the Aran Islands, and even the Underworld on area stages this fall.
By CAROLYN CLAY | September 11, 2008

Winged feet

Dance around town
Dance highlights from the fall season.
By DEBRA CASH | September 11, 2008

Sound and silence

Old and new images meet at the RISD Museum
The RISD exhibit reminds us that filmmakers at the forefront of the medium have been consistently drawn to the novelty of the medium.
By GREG COOK | September 18, 2007

Master-servant/Master-mistress

Figaro at the ART; The English Channel at Suffolk
Figaro and Count Almaviva are holed up in a sacked mansion opposite the Bastille.
By CAROLYN CLAY | September 12, 2007

Life is but a dream

Aurélia Thierrée and Coleman Lemieux at Jacob’s Pillow
Children from theatrical families are often said to have been born in a trunk.
By DEBRA CASH | July 03, 2007

Nevermind the Bollocks

The Sex Pistols arrive
This article originally appeared in the January 17, 1978 issue of the Boston Phoenix.
By KIT RACHLIS | November 14, 2006

Cannesglomeration

Of festivities
This article originally appeared in the June 1, 1971 issue of the Boston Phoenix.
By DEAC ROSSELL | November 14, 2006

Sing the song!

Madeleine Peyroux, Berklee Performance Center, November 1, 2006
What’s the deal with Madeleine Peyroux? Slideshow: Madeleine Peyroux at Berklee Performance Center, November 1, 2006
By JON GARELICK | November 02, 2006

Stepping right up

Twyla’s Dylan in New York; Rhythm at the Regent
Bob Dylan’s music isn’t the first thing you’d think of as the basis for a dance show.
By MARCIA B. SIEGEL | November 01, 2006

Small state, big stage

Steven Feinberg reveals how Rhode Island wound up on the Hollywood map
When some of his childhood friends in Cranston were starting to party, Steven Feinberg remained transfixed by the movies -- to the point where he envisioned one day serving as Rhode Island’s celluloid king.
By IAN DONNIS | August 02, 2006