Bald-capped and painted blue, Blue Man Group performs at the Charles Playhouse- and the shows are much more than drumming and face paint. Part rave, part dinner party, part art or music class gone wrong, this Boston-based, Avant-garde theatre troupe is hilarious and the actors never even speak.
Going into “The Judge,” I expected to be moved.
“The Judge” secured all the ingredients for an Oscar contender: the writer behind Gran Torino (David Schenk), a director responsible for comedy powerhouses like Wedding Crashers and Shanghai Knights (David Dobkin) and seasoned, award-winning actors Robert Downey Jr., Robert Duvall, Billy Bob Thornton, Vera Farmiga and Vincent D’Onofrio.
Bastille’s North American tour reached the Agganis Arena at Boston University on Columbus Day, featuring emerging electric rock group Grizfolk as their opening act.
Dark figures walk onto the small studio stage. Third year theatre major Floris Liu, covered in ghostly facepaint, begins singing a haunting tune – a converted chorus speech – before Antigone (senior theatre major Toni Oggioni), runs out to greet her sister Ismene (junior theatre major Jillian Goeler). With blonde dreadlocks trailing down her back, Oggiono cries out her first angsty lines of the Sophocles’ Greek classic “Antigone,” Northeastern Theatre Department’s first production of the semester.
Wednesday, Oct. 15
Try a different take on comedy and come see one of America’s preeminent humor authors, David Sedaris, give a talk hosted by Celebrity Series of Boston at the Boston Symphony Hall this Wednesday. Known for his essay collections “Me Talk Pretty One Day” and “Let’s Talk About Diabetes With Owls,” Sedaris was first recognized by NPR in 1992. His books are largely autobiographical, taking a self-deprecating look at his middle class suburban life, jobs, education and obsessive behaviors. Speaking with this trademark style, Sedaris is bound to put on a good show and keep everyone laughing. Boston Symphony Hall, 301 Massachusetts Ave.; 8 p.m.; $45-50.
At a school with almost 20 percent international students, it’s almost impossible as a Husky not to find yourself at one time or another as the only American in the group. When that time inevitable comes, here are the 10 things that will happen:
North America’s most substantial exhibition of Goya’s work in 25 years will be unveiled by the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) and on display from Oct. 12 to Jan. 15. “Goya: Order and Disorder” is comprised of 170 drawings, prints and paintings from the MFA’s collection, along with loans from other museums and private collectors, some of which have never entered the United States.
Disguised as detective fiction, “Gone Girl” at its core is the story of an ostensibly happy married couple that goes through a meat-grinder of lay-offs, collapsing families and power struggles—and comes out the other end as a depraved and carnivorous union of sociopaths. It is a close adaptation of the novel of the same title by Gillian Flynn. David Fincher, director of such psychological thrillers as “Fight Club,” “Se7en” and “The Game,” was the perfect candidate to bring this novel to life.
Talib Kweli, influential rapper and social activist, spoke at Berklee College of Music on Monday for the eighth annual Business of Hip-Hop and Urban Music Symposium.
On Saturday afternoon, families, food lovers and student musicians gathered for the 14th Annual Berklee BeanTown Jazz Festival, which successfully combined three universal favorites: great food, great weather and great music.
Alt-J is a hard band to figure out. They sound something like a modern art painting looks, perhaps as the album art for their second full-length release suggests. It seems random but with an underriding feeling of precise calculation, not completely accessible, yet easy to digest as long as you don’t think about the finished product too much.
Years of objectification and catcalls may have taught many women that it is safest to swallow the embarrassment and anger and simply ignore their harassers, but Tatyana Fazlalizadeh, the street artist behind the “Stop Telling Women To Smile” anti-street harassment project, isn’t letting it go anymore.
