Film Review: Remembrance of Things Zappa

Nov 19, 2017

Frank Zappa fans will enjoy an incisive look into a seminal period of the artist’s work, with its balance of sophisticated orchestral numbers and sardonic social commentaries on glitz, chintz, and cocaine. Summer ’82: When Zappa Came to Sicily, directed by Salvo Cuccia. Screening at the Regent Theatre, Arlington, MA, at 7:30 p.m. on November 20.

Ba-da-bing! Bisantz directs ‘Old Jews Telling Jokes’

Apr 12, 2015

So you think you've heard every Jewish joke out there, right? Not necessarily, a fact you'll discover with Old Jews Telling Jokes, Peter Gethers and Daniel Okrent's off-Broadway hit playing Arlington's Regent Theatre April 15-May 17.

BOSTON GLOBE: Music for kids (and parents too) at Regent Theatre

Feb 16, 2013

By Nancy Shohet West Globe Correspondent / February 13, 2013 As both a parent and a music teacher, Josh Shriber was well aware of the problem with much of the music to which kids listen. If it’s billed as children’s music, he says, adults often find it irritating. And if it’s mainstream music that kids choose to listen to themselves, it’s often thematically or lyrically inappropriate. So the mission of Shriber’s band, Josh and the Jamtones, is fairly straightforward. “We try to create a sound where Mom and Dad don’t want to throw the CD out the window after the first listen,” the Newton resident said.