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1 month ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Ed Symkus
For some, the sport of pro wrestling might bring to mind big — often muscular, usually athletic — men. But for close to a century, a contingent of women — generally smaller and athletic, sometimes muscular — have also been climbing through the ropes and taking part in “mat wars.” These days, female grapplers are as popular as their male counterparts.
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Dec 8, 2024 | 
artsfuse.org | Ed Symkus
By Ed SymkusThe most recent in an apparently boundless reservoir of Beatles documentaries will “please please” their fans. Beatles ’64 is directed by David Tedeschi, and produced by Martin Scorsese and Margaret Bodde. It begins streaming on Disney+ on November 29.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
artsfuse.org | Ed Symkus
By Ed Symkus“I still pinch myself that I got to work with Clint Eastwood. But any anxiety quickly dissipated upon meeting him. He is so cool and calm and funny and easy.”Although she had been dabbling in small film and TV parts in her native Australia since 1990, it wasn’t until she scored the title role in Muriel’s Wedding in 1994 (released in the U.S. a year later), that Toni Collette was firmly on track to becoming a very much in-demand lead and supporting film and TV actor.
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Jul 18, 2024 | 
bostonglobe.com | Ed Symkus
There’s likely nothing that Conan O’Brien wants more than to make you laugh. It’s been his raison d’etre since he was the funny, goofy kid growing up in Brookline, through his tenure as a prankster and president of the Harvard Lampoon while attending Harvard, and during his stints as, among other jobs, television writer, talk show host, travel show host, radio host, podcaster, and actor.
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Jun 27, 2024 | 
artsfuse.org | Ed Symkus |Bill Marx
By Ed SymkusThe latest film from Yorgos Lanthimos is a confusing mishmash of forced weirdness. Kinds of Kindness is directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, and written by Lanthimos and Efthimis Filippou. It’s playing at the Coolidge Corner Theatre, Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, AMC Boston Common, and Kendall Square Cinema.
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Jun 21, 2024 | 
artsfuse.org | Ed Symkus |Bill Marx
By Ed SymkusA 1968 book of photos and interviews on a motorcycle club makes a fictionalized transition to the screenThe Bikeriders is written and directed by Jeff Nichols. Screening at the Coolidge Corner Theatre, Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, AMC Boston Common, and Showcase Cinema at Legacy Place. I have a few quibbles with The Bikeriders, but they’re much more about how it’s being sold to prospective viewers than about the film itself.
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May 23, 2024 | 
boston.com | Ed Symkus
Concerts We've super-sized our summer concerts list to fit in more of the stellar acts coming through from June through August. (Sites include TD Garden, Roadrunner, MGM Music Hall at Fenway, House of Blues, Leader Bank Pavilion, Wang Theatre, The Wilbur, Symphony Hall, Xfinity Center, Passim, Scullers Jazz Club, and City Winery. Also check out our separate Gillette Stadium and Fenway Park concert guides; our smaller venue preview is here.
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May 13, 2024 | 
bostonglobe.com | Ed Symkus
It was a matter of timing — and a fateful phone call — that led to John Ehrlich conducting his first concert as music director of the Spectrum Singers in December 1980. Now nearly 44 years later, he’s preparing for his final performance with the 40-member, all-volunteer chorus, Saturday at the First Church Congregational in Cambridge. “We did a fair amount of early music back then,” he said of those first days. “But we’d also do 20th-century stuff.
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May 8, 2024 | 
artsfuse.org | Ed Symkus |Bill Marx
By Ed SymkusBeatles fans are being treated to a three-fer of projects spanning three media genres: a restoration of the film Let It Be, a book focusing on the two 1967 songs “Strawberry Fields Forever” and “Penny Lane,” and an appearance on the new season of Doctor Who. The Beatles just won’t go away. And I’ve got no problem with that.
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Apr 10, 2024 | 
bostonglobe.com | Ed Symkus
It’s been about six years since Boch Center CEO and President Joe Spaulding and chairman of the board Mark Weld had what would amount to a fateful discussion about music. Both acoustic guitarists, and both in agreement that Boston had long been a hotbed of folk music, they created a folk-Americana music performance series. But that turned out to be just a hint of what was to come.
