If you’ve still got your collegiate cynicism, Steely Dan is still the perfect band to feed it.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:07AMAlthough the production of The Last Days of Cleopatra is at times a bit hard to follow, patient audience members will be rewarded by a profound dramatic payoff.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:54AMArts Fuse critics select the best in music, film, theater, author readings, and dance that’s coming up in the next week.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:53PMThe Lawn on D is a breath of fresh cultural air in Boston.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:19PMA charming, thoughtful one-man homage to writer Tennessee Williams and a hilarious burlesque spoof of TV's Mad Men.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:52PMX is simply too good to turn into a travelling punk museum
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:07AMThe bust of Leonard Bernstein was done by New England artist Penelope Jencks and commissioned by legendary film composer John Williams.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:44PMThe men are portrayed as comically irrelevant -- and this is refreshing given the phallocentric alpha-male angst that has been TV fodder so often before.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:34AMArts Fuse critics select the best in music, film, theater, author readings, and dance that’s coming up in the next week.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:17PMIt was good to see Martha Davis and The Motels with a full house at Johnny D’s, especially since the group clearly has life in them.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:30AMThere are some fine moments in Re:Group Theatre's production of the epic A Texas Trilogy, but there are also many limitations.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:18AMThe establishment of Design Museum Boston is long overdue.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:46PMThough it doesn’t seem that Chicago will ever shake up their setlists or rediscover their original mission, at least they can still sneak just a little Varese in with the hits.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:05PMBecause it includes so many images from all parts of his life, Finding Fela may offer the finest tribute to the star's determination and defiance though the way his face and body look as tim…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:00PMHudson Warehouse's production of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale is fast-paced, sad, and occasionally quite funny.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:47AMArts Fuse critics select the best in music, film, theater, author readings, and dance that’s coming up in the next week.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:04PMAt its best, the playful absurdity of Franz West's work seduces the viewer.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:13AMBeginning next month, local venues will be positively overrun with reunion shows representing five decades of Boston bands — without doubt the largest reunion event in the history of the B…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:10PMMonday’s news of the death of Robin Williams has hit hard. His brand of irresistible joie de vivre has been indispensable for decades.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:08AMem> Director Werner Herzog has repeatedly taken us to places where few moviemakers have dared to venture; this Blu-Ray set is an essential addition to any serious film collection.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:18PMThis engaging exhibition features the work of 6 artists who meditate on the demise of the analog film image, exploring celluloid's "particular visual, material, aural, and even metaphoric ch…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:42AMElsewhere is a tragicomic work, its plethora of absurd coincidences an attempt to portray the senseless plight of the post-postmodern man.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:43PMThe jazz of tomorrow is in gifted hands. The future of the music business is more up for grabs.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:22PMA Most Wanted Man could have been a tense espionage yarn, but director and cast seem distinctly uninterested in delivering the nail-biting goods.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:52AMThe title of Richard Linklater's extraordinary film did not lure me to the theater. A friend's recommendation did.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:21PMSome four centuries after Playhouse Creatures takes place, women are still facing inequality in the theatre world; companies like Maiden Phoenix are part of the solution to that problem.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:07PMDirector Richard Linklater does something in Boyhood that is virtually unique. He filmed it over a twelve year period, so the actors actually grow older right before our eyes.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:17AMAt its core, Code Black is about the struggle faced by young physicians who want to remain idealistic in the face of our failing health care system.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:35PMA Hard Day’s Night stands as a landmark in rock history because it exemplifies the Beatles’s joyously innocent starting point -- today it delivers an irresistible sonic joy that comes fr…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:05AMThe Noble Hustle gives talented novelist Colson Whitehead an opportunity to spelunk in some of the gnarlier corners of the American dream, in this case the Tropicana in Atlantic City.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:59AM"Music is kind of like a religion in a way, and your heroes become your patron saints."
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