Elder Rites

Elder Rites

This week sees the culmination of an adventurous three-week process led by the French choreographer Thierry Thieû Niang. A co-presentation of MIFA Victory Theatre and Vermont Performance Lab, du Printemps reimagines the once-scandalous Rite of Spring,...
Making Way for the New

Making Way for the New

When the play Skyscraper hits the stage this week, it offers one intriguing resonance with reality, and it offers an equally intriguing take on the financial model of putting on shows and paying participants. The play focuses on the lives of six people (two of them...
A ?Natural Fit??

A ?Natural Fit??

In September, Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley announced her intention to run for governor, putting an end to months of speculation about her political plans. And just a couple of weeks later, Maura Healey was in Coakley’s office, to let her...

From Our Readers

No Fracking Way! Regarding Maureen Turner’s piece last week on developers interested in putting a gas pipeline through sanctuary land (“An Ironic Proposal,” May 22): This proposal for a new infrastructure for a non-renewable fuel transport is simply...

The Censor Google

The recent EU court ruling ordering Google and other search engines (there are other search engines?) to process requests from European citizens to erase links to material about them is being criticized by techno-libertarians. Allowing people to clean...