With ‘In Character,’ re-creating and role-playing
In photography and video, identity and originality are explored.
Noël Coward’s timeless ‘Lives’
The New York Times
His star quality comes to the fore in a revival at Huntington Theatre and exhibit in New York.
Galleries
From Bloom’s spiritual palette
Hyman Bloom, Bob Oppenheim, and Robin Luciano Beaty are in shows at Boston galleries.
Museum of Fine Arts receives massive gift from trustee
Museum of Fine Arts receives massive gift from trusteeThe museum announced it had received a gift of 6,000 photographs, 100 works on paper, and 25 paintings from Saundra Lane, longtime friend of the MFA.
art review
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The enigma of Alex Katz
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The enigma of Alex Katz The Pop artist’s show at the Museum of Fine Arts exudes style, spirit, and humor. So what’s missing? That’s part of the point.
Stage Review
Nowhere to turn in magnetic ‘Trojan Women’
In this Whistler in the Dark Theatre production of Euripides’s “Trojan Women,’’ the audience is right onstage, in the middle of the action.
Joan Marcus
Stages
Taunton actress comes home in ‘Beauty and the Beast’
If you go to see “Disney’s Beauty and the Beast,” you should hear a few people clapping extra hard whenever Babette gets a moment in the spotlight.
Stage Review
Striving for connection at Boston Theater Marathon
A striking number of the 53 plays presented concerned the difficulties in forging a genuine human connection in a revved-up world.
Inside Arts & Lifestyle
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Visual art
‘Oh, Canada!’ shows the boundless arts of being Canadian
Curator Denise Markonish finds herself in the unusual position of being an American-born ambassador for Canadian art.
Theater
Critic’s Notebook
An election-year ‘Coriolanus’
All the play lacks is a reference to super PACs to remind, once again, that Shakespeare is not only timeless but ever-timely, writes Don Aucoin.
Other performing arts
Rashaun Mitchell stages master’s work and his own
The choreographer and former Cunningham Dance Company member is restaging a singular work while building originals.
Don Aucoin
Theater critic
Aucoin is the Globe’s theater critic, and has covered everything from television to politics to the Catholic Church’s abuse scandal.
