Best of Boston
Best Performance
Jose Mateo Ballet Theatre
Cambridge
This 25-year-old company is the antithesis of stuffy, overpolished dance—and its venue, the minuscule Sanctuary Theatre inside the Old Cambridge Baptist Church, provides an almost [...] read more»
2002 Best Performance, Dance
Maureen Fleming
In her stark solo show, "After Eros," Maureen Fleming conjures images ranging from spiraling water to bone fragments to a butterfly breaking out of its [...] read more»
1999 Best Performance, by an Actor
Arliss Howard, American Repertory Theatre
In the A.R.T.'s production of Paula Vogel's How I Learned to Drive, Howard injected a sinister yet sympathetic edge to the role of a gentle [...] read more»
1994 Best Performance, by an Empty Shirt
Jonathan Hall
Jonathan Hall's reporting of Jackie O's deathwatch in New York. Hall told viewers that Ted Kennedy had two pots on the same boiler that night; [...] read more»
1993 Best Performance, Series
The Bank of Boston Celebrity Series
Last year it brought us Lynn Redgrave in Shakespeare for My Father. This year it will present the Twyla Tharp Dancers, Itzhak Perlman, Victor Borge—the [...] read more»
1992 Best Performance, Broadway
<em>The Secret Garden</em>, coming to the Colonial in November
Forget the Phantom of the Opera, with his sissy little half mask. The Secret Garden, an adaptation of the Frances Hodgson Burnett children's book, is [...] read more»
1989 Best Performance, Choral
The Bulgarian State Radio and Television Female Vocal Choir at the Somerville Theater
No joke. Paul McCartney raves about the group's album, and David Byrne is also a fan. The choir's sound is beautiful and unforgettable. And we're [...] read more»
1989 Best Performance
As high-tech firms go, Straus Computer is about as sexy as Lumpy Shannon.
The Marlborough company makes Armaggedon-resistant computers for a niche market. But these days, it's the only Massachusetts computer company with bark and byte. read more»
1988 Best Performance, Clutch
Bird's fourth-quarter, 20-point performance against Atlanta in the seventh game of that series. read more»
1987 Best Performance, Opera
<em>Gulio Cesare in Eggito</em>
Gulio Cesare in Eggito, directed by Peter Sellars and Craig Smith. The full four and a half hours of Handel's original score and a Ronald [...] read more»
1987 Best Performance, Pop
Peter Gabriel at the Centrum
He literally put himself in the hands of his fans, who passed his body around the audience and returned him to the stage just in [...] read more»