Come celebrate the music of Sun Ra: legendary jazz composer, bandleader, piano and synthesizer player, poet, theatrical ringmaster, and lyricist of the extra terrestrial.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:13AM[SHARE]Mayer's report deals with David Koch throwing his weight around at WNET and PBS. Unfortunately, she does not talk about whether Koch's powerful presence has influenced WGBH.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:02PM[SHARE]Deadpan sarcasm perfectly pitched, absurdity of target (and publisher) punctured with a minimum of muss and fuss.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:44AM[SHARE]Any American arts critic worth his or her salt is part of a bohemian fringe, is aware of the political resonance of their reviews, and is dedicated to sparking serious dialogue about arts an…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:43PM[SHARE]The Zeitgeist Stage Company provocatively lives up to its name by taking audiences into the netherworld of horrific violence via a powerful production of Simon Stephens' drama "Punk Rock."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:25PM[SHARE]Something emotional (perhaps even passionate) whirls underneath the well-worn modernist pieties of "Old-Fashioned Prostitutes," though not to the point of disrupting the daffy routine.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:01PM[SHARE]Criticism is vital to our time because it is a form of witnessing, testimony to the possibility that the richness and joy of the arts can be articulated in ways that invite intellectual cont…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:31PM[SHARE]Susanne M. Sklar's study is the best exploration of William Blake's miraculously bewildering masterpiece that I know of " thoughtful, scholarly, imaginative, and supremely sympathetic to the…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:30AM[SHARE]A system in which no one takes responsibility for editorial decisions works out great for the inside gamers, like Nathaniel Rich.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:39AM[SHARE]Nowhere do I say in the piece that The Arts Fuse is all good and everyone else is all bad.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:19PM[SHARE]According to our docile mainstream media, Boston enjoys a perpetual Renaissance -- the merchandise in the cultural window is always worth buying. And that predictability makes for very borin…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:43AM[SHARE]Ballet program administrators in Cuba will be happy I'm telling the true story in "Secundaria," the one they're not allowed to tell themselves.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:02PM[SHARE]Recent changes in Boston's media landscape do not bode well for substantial coverage of the arts. What do those in the arts world think about what is happening?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:36PM[SHARE]Mr. Selfridge drives me nuts because the storyline, the rise of a mercantile empire, calls for edgy  Darwinian conflict rather than paternal benevolence sprinkled with layers of powered s…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:29AM[SHARE]All is not well with the classical music scene in Boston. Boston's Church of St. John the Evangelist has pulled funding from its Wednesday Concert Series.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:26AM[SHARE]If we are not diligent in maintaining high editorial standards, arts coverage will morph into misshapen forms of infotainment and advertising. Once those monstrosities are set in profitable …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:42PM[SHARE]"There is a difference between blood and guts, as celebrated in the current vogue of horror-slasher flicks, and the capacity of the darkest of the Grimms' tales to pierce the thin skin of ci…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:17AM[SHARE]With your help, The Arts Fuse will launch its first-ever advertising campaign atop taxi cabs this spring. We want to encourage Greater Boston's arts and cultural communities to see the artsf…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:20AM[SHARE]"Clybourne Park" was expressly written to be in conversation with Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun." The former gives us a new perspective " actually new perspectives -- on the latt…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:38AM[SHARE]Both authors generate humor out of the casual inhumanity of the bourgeoise, dramatizing how the farce of middle class success distorts its victors and victims.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:53PM[SHARE]Unlike fellow apostate (and friend) Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne didn't have the chutzpah to be a proto-existentialist -- for him, it was better to cling to questionable moral pietie…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:33AM[SHARE]"As a white atheist male I am told it is none of my business to deal with what's going on in the so-called de-colonized societies enforcing their religious laws on their citizens." -- Joshua…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:44PM[SHARE]"What Sherwood Anderson knew and understood was the nature of inarticulate lives and what people do when they're in the grip of strong feelings and words fail them."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:13PM[SHARE]For all of its earnest interest in healing some of the great divides in American life, Other Desert Cities ends up slighting the desert spaces that lie between us.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:49AM[SHARE]For me, the fact that Bread and Puppet Theatre has survived for 50 years is very hopeful, essentially because company members have never wavered from their principles. Imagine that. You can …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:27PM[SHARE]The Whistler in the Dark production does right by the gaunt power of "Vinegar Tom" -- if only dramatist Caryl Churchill hadn't served up such a tidily edifying coven of alleged sorceresses.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:37PM[SHARE]An adaptor has to make choices, and this theatrical version of "Invisible Man" focuses on the novel's most straightforward narrative strand.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:31PM[SHARE]In this production, director Piotr Fomenko "wanted to explore whether family happiness is even possible, the fight to keep it and the fear of losing it."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:53AM[SHARE]Nervous mainstream audiences could breathe easy, the messy cultural ruckus of the '60s was over: it was ok to find yourself in the suburbs.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:41AM[SHARE]Bare bones, determinedly unhokey, and intimate, director David Cromer's matter-of-fact approach does away with the irritatingly self-conscious fussiness that afflicts so many productions.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:38AM[SHARE]Larry Coen directs "Chinglish"'s awkwardly written romance with a savory earnestness, but he can't put the pieces of the fragmented script (you laugh/you cry) together.
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