Laurie Anderson has brought her latest performance piece, Delusion, to Boston, Massachusetts, for a six-night residency at the Paramount Center Mainstage, which began last night and runs through Sunday. When Anderson performed the piece in Los Angeles last year, Los Angeles Times music critic Mark Swed called it a "powerful, moving, incredibly rich work." Following its New York premiere at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Village Voice called it "just perfect."

The Boston Globe includes Paramount performances among its Critic's Picks. "With her trademark imagery and music," writes Globe staffer Don Aucoin, "celebrated performance artist Laurie Anderson offers a blend of stories, memories, and dreams as she meditates on everything from her mother’s final days to a lawsuit about the ownership of the moon."

Anderson spoke about the piece with the Boston Herald's Jenna Scherertheater, who writes: "Laurie Anderson isn’t the kind to sit still ... Versatile doesn’t even begin to cover it."

For her part, Anderson discusses the challenges of sharing some of the more personal aspects of the show, such as the death of her mother. “Sometimes it is hard to say it," Anderson tells Scherertheater. "On the other hand, if you don’t do things that are emotional and personal and taboo, what are you doing?”

Read more of what she has to say in article at bostonherald.com.

Following the Boston performances, Anderson takes Delusion to Montreal, for two performances at Usine C next week. For more information and additional tour dates, go to nonesuch.com/on-tour.

To pick up a copy of Anderson's latest album, Homeland, which includes songs heard in Delusion, head to the Nonesuch Store, where orders of the CD/DVD include high-quality, 320 kbps MP3s of the music at checkout.