Munch’s ‘Scream’ sells for $119.9m at auction
The 1895 painting, a symbol of human anxiety and one of the art world’s most recognizable images, sold for a record price at a Sotheby’s auction.
THEATER
‘Porgy and Bess’ gets 10 Tony Award nominations
The revival of the George Gershwin classic, which began in Cambridge, was second only to “Once.”
Stage Review
‘Maestro’ taps into sadness of Leonard Bernstein
In his finely wrought portrait, Hershey Felder explores the sadness his subject felt as he considered his own unfulfilled expectations.
Stage Review
Ryan Landry’s ‘Mary Poppers’ flies high at Machine
The deconstruction of P. L. Travers’s Mary Poppins by Ryan Landry and his Gold Dust Orphans is up and flying at Machine, and it was well worth the wait.
Andrew Brilliant/Brilliant Pictures
STAGE REVIEW
‘Little Shop of Horrors’ is serious fun at New Repertory Theatre
Perhaps not every production of the 1982 cult-classic musical conjures Shakespeare’s Scottish play, but this one certainly does.
Galleries
Welcome to their imaginary world
Reviews of current art gallery exhibits, including “Megan and Murray McMillan: When We Didn't Touch the Ground.”
Site Lines
In a Westport waterfront house, modernism breathes anew
If you had to find a label for this house, it would be Retro Modern.
Robert Lepage on art of science, science of art
The acclaimed French-Canadian director-playwright-performer is known for his ingenious — and sometimes controversial — use of technology.
Photography Review
Extracting unsettling beauty from Vermont quarries
For two decades, Edward Burtynsky’s large-format color photographs have recorded globalization.
Inside Arts & Lifestyle
Visual art
Photography review
Edward Weston meets Walt Whitman at the MFA
If you were to pick someone whose poetry had an affinity with the photography of Edward Weston, would it be Walt Whitman?
Theater
Chita Rivera, without regrets
“I have had the best of them all,” says Chita Rivera, whose stage career reads like a history of Broadway.
Other performing arts
Stage Review
Fate works in strange ways in ‘The Realistic Joneses’
In a world premiere under the direction of Sam Gold at Yale Repertory Theatre, Will Eno’s play worms its way into the psyche.
Don Aucoin
Theater critic
Aucoin is the Globe’s theater critic, and has covered everything from television to politics to the Catholic Church’s abuse scandal.
