MONTREAL—It was snowing lightly last Thursday afternoon as the performance of “Les Bêtes dansent ou le sortilège discret de la nature sauvage” (“The Dancing Beasts or the Discrete Spell of…Continue Reading →
During a snowstorm in January 1885, Wilson ”Snowflake” Bentley, a Vermont farmer turned scientist, is said to have become the first person to photograph a single snow crystal—more commonly known…Continue Reading →
Barbara Morgan’s photographs of American modern dancers in the 1930s and ‘40s are among the most striking and influential ever made. But she didn’t set out to be a photographer.…Continue Reading →
As perhaps a few hundred people flocked to Cambridge’s Harvard Square to see Hollywood actress Mila Kunis appear in a short parade advertising Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals, a handful…Continue Reading →
“Rainbow Collapse”—part of the “Run of the Mills” performance series at the Boston Center for the Arts—“is a piece about working in the gap between what we want and what…Continue Reading →
“The moment you walk in stuff is going on around you already,” explains Jason Slavick, director of Liars & Believers’ new show, “Irresistible,” which they’ll perform for one night only,…Continue Reading →
In SpeakEasy Stage Company’s “Shakespeare In Love”—being performed at the Boston Center for the Arts Calderwood Pavilion from Jan. 12 to Feb. 10—George Olesky is the actor cast to play…Continue Reading →
“Melaza” (Molasses), the new work from the Boston-based social justice oriented dance theater company Danza Organica, addresses the United States’ colonial oppression of Puerto Rico. “We shed light on the…Continue Reading →
Saturday brings the 4th annual Vermont Crankie Fest to New England Youth Theater in Brattleboro. “Crankies are scrolling illustrations that accompany songs and stories,” organizers write. “Often lit from behind,…Continue Reading →
WONDERLAND’s guide to theater and performance art to check out from January to March—including Sondheim, shadow puppets, and shows about the Arab Spring, a mass shooting, art forgery, police violence,…Continue Reading →