Tuesday, April 16, 2024
You either go full Hollywood CGI, or you pare it down to the poetry of it.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:42AMWednesday, February 2, 2022
In our intersectional age, the stories of the fools of Chelm belong on the shelves of any child with a taste for the ridiculous and -- with the clarity of kids -- an ability to see through s…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:12AMMonday, August 5, 2019
Susan Larson's The Murder of Figaro is spiced with raunch, witticisms, and behind the scenes verisimilitude of rehearsal life.
The post Book Interview: Susan Larson’s “The Murder of Fig…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:12PMTuesday, July 16, 2019
David Treuer's expansive new history of native America from 1890 to the present looks with skeptical, Indian eyes from inside simplistic American symbols and narratives.
The post Book Review…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:03PMFriday, May 17, 2019
The horrors portrayed in See You Yesterday are facts, but this show does not yet address the meaning a new generation can make of those facts.
The post Dance Review: “See You Yesterday” …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:12AMFriday, January 18, 2019
Invariably, these economic realities are barriers to entry into the broader cultural arena for the less-well-heeled among us, sustaining inequity.
The post Arts Commentary: The Authors Guild…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:32PMFriday, January 11, 2019
The authors let dance serve as a way of embodied knowing -- an intelligence that can unlock an understanding of physics' theories and abstractions.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:12AMTuesday, December 11, 2018
Playful and political, eerie and goofy by turns, this exhibition brings together puppets, performing objects, masks, and puppet (and doll) performances on video.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:24AMWednesday, December 13, 2017
The Celebrity Series of Boston gathered a distinguished multi-generational panel to consider both the legacy of Alvin Ailey and of Elma Lewis.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:54AMSaturday, May 13, 2017
For a reader without the reference points of mid-twentieth century Lithuania and Poland, this deeply researched biography can be a slog.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:05AMFriday, October 28, 2016
The heart of this theatrical reboot is what it means to go for broke and bet on love, or art, or both.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:06PMThursday, June 23, 2016
Former Newsweek bureau chief Joshua Hammer has documented a timely story of cultural heroism.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:03AMTuesday, March 1, 2016
Brian Seibert's history of tap dancing has unleashed something I can only describe as a tap world pissing contest.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:31AMThursday, October 22, 2015
Filmmaker Alla Kovgan calls Cunningham 3D a new juncture at the crossroads of dance, cinema, music, visual arts, and 3D technology.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:04PMTuesday, May 26, 2015
What happens when someone performs at the highest possible level of an art form and then has to give it up?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:14AMMonday, February 2, 2015
George Fifield has been pushing the conceptual ball called contemporary digital and intermedia art up a hill for decades.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:15AMSaturday, January 24, 2015
Now 58, the noted choreographer's succinct gestural language, coincident use of music and musical ideas, and spatial elasticity is now completely second nature.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:45PMSaturday, January 17, 2015
Monica Bill Barnes's choreographic method can be characterized as make 'em laugh, then make 'em think.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:11PMTuesday, January 13, 2015
Truth is, the fraying of the middle class is not just something that has happened to creatives.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:04PMFriday, January 9, 2015
Stave off boredom. This is going to be a smoking festival.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:23PMFriday, January 2, 2015
The exploitation of the free labor of artists may finally have hit a critical mass in 2014, generating enough publicity to make observers righteously angry.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:25AMMonday, December 8, 2014
You'd be a fool to miss taking advantage of Boston's Mayor's Holiday.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:00AMSunday, November 30, 2014
An informed lineup of dance performances -- large and small -- Nutcracker and non-Nutcracker -- for the holidays.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:45PMTuesday, November 4, 2014
If you know Swan Lake, there will be few structural surprises. Girl turned into swan, prince falls in love, prince gets fooled, they both feel really terrible, and die.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:49AMFriday, October 24, 2014
Isango's Magic Flute/ Impempe Yomlingo is lit by flashes of brilliance. Most can be traced directly to Mandisi Dyantyis' reorchestration of Mozart's orchestral score for an ensemble of marim…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:41PMSaturday, October 18, 2014
Here's a modest proposal. Let's invent a Boston arts tasting menu.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:54PMSunday, October 12, 2014
One of the reasons audiences and funders love Kyle Abraham's work is that the layered landscapes of his dances resonate with the fraught conditions outside the theatre.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:45PMThursday, October 9, 2014
After a 35+ year run, writers for the paper learned today that the Providence Phoenix will be shutting its doors after next week's issue.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:28PMTuesday, September 30, 2014
To my mind, with Assembly of the Souls, composer Eitan Steinberg is working in Pulitzer contention territory.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:17AMWednesday, September 17, 2014
On September 21, giant author puppets will be on parade in Mansfield, CT.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:30PMSaturday, September 13, 2014
The centennial of the author of Make Way For Ducklings is being celebrated with a series of lectures by scholar Leonard S. Marcus.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:56AM 
