Sunday, June 3, 2012
An astonishing amount of thinking and creativity has shaped the Boston Choral Ensemble concert.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:16AMMonday, May 28, 2012
The month of May was a tough time for rock music in New England. With the impending death of WFNX and presumably local music radio show Boston Accents, there is now one less exposure avenue …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:46AMSunday, May 27, 2012
Of the major 20th-century writers in English, Patrick White stands with the best, partly because he refused to repeat himself, and partly because he refuses to tell you everything, so that w…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:01PMSaturday, May 26, 2012
Judging by the trailer for The Great Gatsby, it looks as if director Baz Luhrman's habitual excess will overwhelm the lyrical beauty and subtle power of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s prose.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:47AMFriday, May 25, 2012
The poetry of Palestinian author Ghassan Zaqtan dwells in the space between life and death, memory and erasure, respite and continuous travel.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:56PMSunday, May 20, 2012
As sorry as I was to lose Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes last week, I was nonetheless deeply pleased that he reached the age of 83. I almost killed him when he was 37.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:49AMFriday, May 18, 2012
Beau Jest Moving Theatre has returned to the early, one-act version of Williams’ script, and created a sometimes pleasant, sometimes nightmarish dreamscape.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:36PMMark Morris, no longer dancing, joined his company for the curtain call. He’s beloved here, a part of the contemporary dance scene in Boston over the decades as a performer, a choreographe…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:06PMThursday, May 17, 2012
This family's twelve-year-old daughter found Little Shop of Horrors to be funny, silly, and wholly enjoyable, further cementing her desire to be onstage as much and as often as possible in t…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:10PMTuesday, May 15, 2012
Woody Sez is a thoroughly enjoyable and effectively assembled presentation of Woody Guthrie’s life and music.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:51AMSound of My Voice has a lot twists and turns, much charm, and credible suspense. Have I yielded to the cult of Brit Marling? I was always a sucker for pretty face, and a good yarn.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:09AMMonday, May 14, 2012
To his credit, Boston Ballet's artistic director Mikko Nissinen is looking far and wide for ways to expand the company's repertory.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:37PMSunday, May 13, 2012
If you’re into pastry, Cupcake is for you. But if you expect something more filling, then I’m afraid you’ll have to wait for this creative team’s next baking session.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:58PMAlessandro Baricco's novella Silk, filled with inchoate erotic longings for which there is no explanation, became an international bestseller. Emmaus, his latest book in translation, also co…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:32AMFriday, May 11, 2012
Hershey Felder's performance as Leonard Bernstein not only reconnects us with one of America’s great musical geniuses: it is also a reminder that boundaries sometimes stifle our conception…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:33PMThursday, May 10, 2012
If you find classical music to be a vibrant, living thing in which inventive pairings and convincing realizations of music of the distant and recent past can speak in fresh and vital ways to…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:51PMTuesday, May 8, 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 eighth session, a discussion about the Boston Universit…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:59PMMonday, May 7, 2012
Boston Baroque and conductor Martin Pearlman scored another triumph with their semi-staged original version of Gluck's revolutionary creation, an opera that, to its detriment, has often been…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:50PMBeethoven's Symphony No. 9 is a piece the BSO trots out with greater regularity of late than most orchestras (as Tanglewood aficionados are aware, it’s been the traditional summer closer e…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:53AMSaturday, May 5, 2012
The Independent Film Festival of Boston has achieved a reputation as one of the hippest in the country because of the dedication of its small and dedicated staff, an army of well-trained vol…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:11PMThursday, May 3, 2012
Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk’s new museum, named for and based on his 2008 novel, The Museum of Innocence, has opened in Istanbul.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:23AMTuesday, May 1, 2012
Don't expect a standard musical. Think of Fela! as an immersive, artsy, concert experience featuring virtuoso displays of dance and musicianship.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:11AMMonday, April 30, 2012
After catching your breath from a heavy dose of April film festivals, you may think you need a rest! While this month’s Boston area offerings may look tidy in number, they are sprawling in…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:05AMSunday, April 29, 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 seventh session, this time a discussion about the Bosto…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:32AMSaturday, April 28, 2012
The Kid With a Bike is a story of grace, compassion, redemption, and of the possibility of goodness in a very difficult and imperfect world.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:44AMFriday, April 27, 2012
Over the past 6 weeks William Kentridge has shown the form of the lecture itself to be obsolete. But over the course of his returns to the podium, he has shown us that the lecture’s fate i…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:03AMWednesday, April 25, 2012
While jazz and classical Hindustani music, tap and kathak, share a number of striking elements, the collaboration presented in India Jazz Suites is not about "fusion."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:33AMTuesday, April 24, 2012
Between songs Touré and Raichel conferred inaudibly with one another, deciding which tune they would play next. There was very little chatting up the audience, until before the fourth song.…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:47AMSunday, April 22, 2012
Author Margo Livesey has pulled off a considerable literary trick: a page-turner that is also a moving, realistic, subtle, and eminently wise coming-of-age novel.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:04AMFriday, April 20, 2012
Mistranslation weaves through this lecture, for every translation is a mistranslation. But that is what makes them fruitful. As soon as we mis-hear or fail to understand, the brain construct…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:04AMTuesday, April 17, 2012
Supplementing Eugene O'Neill's high drama is a subtle score of music and sound created by Dewey Dellay, an Elliot Norton Award winner for Outstanding Design.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:53PM 
