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The Brother Thomas Fellows

Good news for a change
“Art is something seen about something unseen,” is one way Brother Thomas Bezanson described his calling.

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | October 21, 2009

Play by play: October 23, 2009

Boston theater listings, October 23, 2009
Boston's weekly theater listings

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | October 21, 2009

Play by play: October 16, 2009

This week's theater listings
Boston's weekly theater schedule

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | October 14, 2009

Play by play: October 9, 2009

Theater listings
Boston's weekly theater schedule

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | October 07, 2009

Boston Ballet's Giselle fits right in
The first thing audiences see when the curtain goes up on Boston Ballet's Giselle is our heroine's charming Rhineland-village home, a rustic abode that in Peter Farmer's set is framed by birches, a symbol of fidelity.

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | October 07, 2009

Play by Play: October 2, 2009

Plays from A to Z
Boston's weekly theater schedule

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | September 30, 2009

Smaller, bigger, better

Boston Ballet’s fourth ‘Night of Stars’
Is Boston in the midst of a ballet boom? You could certainly believe that if you attended Boston Ballet’s fourth annual season-opening gala last Saturday.

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | September 22, 2009

Review: Bright Star

Jane Campion does Keats — sort of
"Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art." That's the first line of a sonnet that John Keats did or did not write for Fanny Brawne, who was in either case the love of his brief life.

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | September 22, 2009

Play by Play: September 25, 2009

Plays from A to Z
Boston's weekly theater schedule

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | September 22, 2009

Play by play: September 18, 2009

Plays from A to Z
Boston's weekly theater schedule

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | September 17, 2009

Play by play: September 11, 2009

Boston's weekly theater schedule

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | September 09, 2009

Not so elementary

Barbara Bradley Hagerty goes looking for God
On June 14, 1995, around two in the afternoon, I lowered my guard. I opened myself up just barely to the notion that there might be a God who cares about me in the same way that Jesus cared about, say, his friend Mary.

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | September 02, 2009

Play by play: September 4, 2009

Plays from A to Z
Boston's weekly theater guide

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | September 02, 2009

Play by Play: August 28, 2009

Plays from A to Z
Boston's weekly theater schedule

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | August 26, 2009

Play by play: August 21, 2009

Plays from A to Z
Boston's weekly theater schedule

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | August 18, 2009

Play by play: August 14, 2009

Plays from A to Z
Boston's weekly theater schedule

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | August 11, 2009

Close encounters

Keep your eye on this Bird
Laura Jacobs, who was the dance critic here at the Phoenix in the mid 1980s, is the author of Landscape with Moving Figures, a collection of writing from the New Criterion that's as polemic as it is poetic. But she's also a novelist. Like Women About Town (2002), The Bird Catcher focuses on a young woman finding her way in 21st-century Manhattan.

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | August 05, 2009