Friday, November 16, 2012
The Huntington Theatre Company is hosting an exemplary revival of Harold Pinter's fascinating 1978 work, thanks to the spot-on direction of Maria Aitken.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:42AMYvan Goll may be the great shapeshifter, the Zelig, of twentieth-century poetry.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:35AMTuesday, November 13, 2012
In any piece, the remarkable pianist Jason Moran might go to the very edges of the harmonic movement, until he on the verge of free jazz.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:31AMSunday, November 11, 2012
Will You Can Be A Wesley be your pick for Rock Artist of the Year? Who will it be, Boston? Make your Nate Silver-style predictions and let me know what you think!
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:05AMFriday, November 9, 2012
Translator George Kalogeris’s modernizing does what it should: It brings the poems into the thought-world where modern readers live.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:56AMThursday, November 8, 2012
As "Lincoln"'s end credits roll, you feel vaguely dissatisfied and disappointed that the film never achieves the emotional greatness that it might have in the hands of a different director.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:40PMTuesday, November 6, 2012
As a performer, Lorraine Chapman has few peers in the area. Her body has been forged exquisitely in the ballet studio, and further honed by her early professional career as a ballet dancer.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:50PMThe 35th anniversary concert proved that Coltrane’s music and memory continue to strongly hold sway in the hearts and souls of musicians and audiences alike.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:14AMSunday, November 4, 2012
Local news outlets have already begun to frame Aerosmith's impromptu concert as a homecoming of sorts for the "Bad Boys of Boston." But is this epithet deserved?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:41AMSaturday, November 3, 2012
"Guys and Dolls" is like a baseball team with a five-run lead in the ninth. It's yours to lose. If you put together a talented, versatile cast with this material, you almost certainly will p…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:58AMFriday, November 2, 2012
Ingeborg Bachmann wanted freedom for them both. She says in her letter, “I am free and I am lost in this freedom.” Dominique Frot is a brave actress. She presents the poet's freedom in h…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:32AMWednesday, October 31, 2012
November starts off with efforts to recover from Hurricane Sandy. Once the power comes back, hit the town for some tunes and some strong adult beverages to ease the pain of completing the in…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:19AMTuesday, October 30, 2012
Jazz musician Don Byron is nothing if not eclectic, but his own playing is always penetrating, challenging, energizing, and his compositions vehicles for both intense exploration and tendern…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:03AMThursday, October 25, 2012
"Cloud Atlas" is irresistible, a visual and sensory marvel with a winning mix of charm and humor to offset the darkest violence and mayhem within the sobering tale.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:00PMTuesday, October 23, 2012
Chick Corea and Gary Burton were celebrating their recent disc, "Hot House," which they said was meant to recall the sixties, when the two were starting their careers. But the sixties were n…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:47AMSunday, October 21, 2012
ROUND: Cambridge is a testament to what can be accomplished using smart phones, GPS coordinates and a Google map.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:36AMFriday, October 19, 2012
What is a Judicial Review? It is a fresh approach to creating a conversational, critical space about the arts and culture. This is our ninth session, a discussion about the New Repertory The…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:07PMThe 1930s urban update of "Cinderella" proffers some clumsiness, but the dancing by the expert members of the Mariinsky Ballet is a treat.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:41PMThursday, October 18, 2012
One answer to the question of “Why two plays in verse?” might be that Denis Johnson is a writer relentlessly in pursuit of new forms, and new formal challenges—a literary daredevil alw…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:34AMTuesday, October 16, 2012
When you have a spare twenty minutes, grab some headphones and take your laptop to a dark corner to watch and listen to “Ramada Inn.” You will need the extra three or four minutes to com…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:03PMYes, Ben Affleck took some liberties in "Argo" for the sake of the dramatic arc and a kickass, intense finale. But mostly, the story is so bizarre that it hardly needed enhancement.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:59AMSaturday, October 13, 2012
The evening's material fit quite snugly into the ' 70s fusion model. It was high-energy, electric, rock inflected, and clearly written as a challenge to its virtuoso players.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:48AMFriday, October 12, 2012
THE ART OF ROBERT FROST helped me get closer to the poems and in doing so helped me get closer to the poet.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:08AMThursday, October 11, 2012
For performers and audience members alike the Shalin Liu setting is as much a part of the experience as the music. It has quickly transformed the intimate hall into a destination location fo…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:06PMSunday, October 7, 2012
Intimacy has been the key note of bossa nova performance ever since the initial murmurings of Joao and Astrud Gilberto, and singer Eliane Elias can whisper with the best of them.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:54AMWednesday, October 3, 2012
Grappling with one’s identity -- complicated by the relationships between tradition and modernism, cultural history and the process of assimilation -- is central to most of Sherman Alexie'…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:30AMMonday, October 1, 2012
"It's Fine By Me" is the story of so many lost boys in literature, who run, who rebel, who are crushed, or luckily find their way.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:24AMSunday, September 30, 2012
The local Halloween tradition returns in which local bands play as one of their favorite, more mainstream bands.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:44PMThursday, September 27, 2012
"The Master" is not easily pigeon-holed as a film but one can argue that it is, at its core, a brilliant anti-war movie.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:13AMWednesday, September 26, 2012
Nichita Stănescu is one of the poets who broke through the socialist-realism sound barrier and propelled Romanian poetry into new spheres.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:28AMMonday, September 24, 2012
No question that the culture of Mexico is suffused with memories of music, bright colors, and joy. Would that contemporary political realities reflected more closely the life-enhancing image…
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