The 31st annual Sheepshearing Festival at Gore Place, Waltham, on April 28, 2018. Photos copyright 2018 Greg Cook. Help Wonderland keep producing our great coverage of local arts, cultures and…Continue Reading →
On Friday afternoon, in the rain, Cedric Douglas and two collaborators stood out on Boylston Street, along the Boston Common, and handed out roses to passers-by. Attached to each stem…Continue Reading →
What happens when you take India’s two-millennia-old epic the “Mahabharata” and retell it with an all-female cast? That’s the experiment Stage Ensemble Theater Unit (SETU) explores in its performances at…Continue Reading →
“What I’m thinking about when I set the dance is how you can’t really personify loneliness. It’s a feeling. So how can you get loneliness in a space?” Michael Figueroa…Continue Reading →
In the beginning, there was Elvis Presley shimmying as he sang the new rock ‘n’ roll for 1956 white America. The young things in the audience were entranced, but the…Continue Reading →
I want to thank everyone who helped make and/or joined us for the “Starting Over Festival” at Somerville’s Quincy Street Open Space today. The city’s tiniest urban wild served as…Continue Reading →
“When a legally purchased gun, symbol of the free, turns on a school and takes 17 lives, are the free still free? Or are they irresponsible and stupid?” The performer,…Continue Reading →
Somerville’s tiniest urban wild will be home to the “Starting Over Festival,” a free Arbor Day and Earth Day festival organized by the Somerville Arts Council and Wonderland editor Greg…Continue Reading →
Earlier this month, dozens of Mainers in the far northern reaches of the state created what they say is the largest ice carousel ever made. The feat—organized by Snowmobile Northern…Continue Reading →
The “hanky code,” a secret queer cruising code of the 1970s, was a way to signal your sexual desires via flagging—hanging a bandana from the back pocket of your tight…Continue Reading →