Arts

Flashpoint does what works for 99 percent of plays: They urge us to care about these characters. This script, though, says we shouldn't.

"There's a moment where the emotion gets heightened enough where you must burst into song. That's an amazing moment in theater."

When Evi Numen sent me the portrait she had taken of me for her upcoming series, I was struck by how sickly and sullen I looked. But for her, that's a good thing.

The ICA's "Dirt on Delight" blithely ignores the perennial topic of craft versus art to address more intriguing and up-to-date questions, like, "How far can you go with clay?"

A tradition of the black church — testifying — gets an artful spin in dancer/choreographer Shavon Norris' New Edge Residency piece.

The Food of a Younger Land is a treasure trove of culinary idiosyncrasies, a snapshot of the final moments when there was no alternative to "Buy Local," before fast food.

The Wire owes a lot to Elmore Leonard.

CND2's dancers will perform three physically demanding Duato pieces that pile on lifts, jumps and inversions to sounds ranging from Moroccan folk songs to Claude Debussy.