Although I was disappointed in this Manhattan Theatre Club production, I am, however, very glad to have seen "Wit" -- it is a contemporary classic.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:36PMDominique Eade’s two greatest gifts are her clarity of musical thought and her courage as an improviser. She does not try to be a cabaret-style interpreter or a ring-a-ding-ding swinger.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:35AMWhat more could you ask than that a musical comedy version of The Addams Family cast a kooky spell?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:37AMElegantly written, cogently argued, and filled with trenchant artistic analyses, Alexander Marr's book exemplifies interdisciplinary studies at their best.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:48PM"69°S" takes risks that never put actual life or limb in danger, but under the static of snow and history, we learn that venturing to the edge is always a kind of art.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:07PMDutch cellist Pieter Wispelwey first performed, as the soloist with the Australian Chamber Orchestra. in the Celebrity Series line-up back in 2007. He made his second appearance at NEC’s J…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:11PMAward-winning filmmaker Helen Whitney: “My films form a kind of spiritual autobiography. I’m always searching for subjects that allow me to ask the big questions: Why are we here? Why mu…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:08AMAside from the intrinsic entertainment value of these operas, they show Ravel in quite a different light than we are used to from his chamber and other orchestral music.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:15PMThis is a book for anyone interested not just in the economic state of the symphony orchestra, but in the overall financial health of the arts in the United States.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:24AMI recommend keeping an eye out for this and other animation shows at local, independent theaters and museums. You will be dazzled and amazed.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:23AMThe SAG Awards have everything you want, and very little you don’t. The ceremony celebrates film and television, so it’s always star-packed, and only honors actors, so you don’t have t…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:12PMAfter the "Lobgesang"’s premiere, Robert Schumann declared this movement “a glimpse of heaven filled with Raphael’s madonnas,” and Saturday’s performance by the BSO came about as c…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:47PMThough there were differences in quality between the compositions in the BMOP concert, all of the pieces fulfilled the primary requirement of a concerto: they showed off the capabilities of …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:36PMYou may be still catching up on the Academy Award, Golden Globe, People’s Choice, or SAG picks. But this month offers some rare and wonderful treats for film fans of all kinds.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:51AMItalian writer Niccolò Ammaniti usually writes with an unadorned style about moral predicaments of the young in small-town Italy. "Me and You," a slender effort in all respects, covers this…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:56AMThe Cantata Singers approached both works with the sensitivities that each required. Music Director David Hoose retained the intensity of the music through his economic and unpretentious, bu…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:08PMBierce proffers a satiric temperament gone wild and woolly, partly propelled by a revulsion at the criminal vulgarity of the Gilded Age. Given the current triumph of the 1%, his fury at powe…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:02AMIn "Art," playwright Yasmina Reza uses theater to explore how powerfully we defend our fears and rationalizations.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:40PMGuest conductor Giancarlo Guerrero, music director of the Nashville Symphony Orchestra, is a big man who conducts with big gestures. In the first half of "The Rite of Spring" I wasn’t quit…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:05PMAs in the plays of Harold Pinter, Reza realizes that violence seethes underneath our words; our language betrays our better nature.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:19PMAs in the plays of Harold Pinter, Yesmina Reza's script explores how violence simmers beneath the words; our language betrays our better nature, if you listen carefully enough.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:53AMCertainly part of the power of Tomas Tranströmer's poetry resides in how, having established a jagged consciousness, he leaves us in between—in a world full of questions that are not easi…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:40AMArts Fuse TV Critic Molly Jay thinks that the Golden Globes telecast was a dud, but that the group's TV awards were mainly on target.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:24PMIn a nice twist, no piece on the Concord Chamber Players program was written before 1907, and that oldest piece came from a fine composer, Camille Saint-Saëns, whose music has fallen somewh…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:57PM"Red" is about creativity and destruction, Apollonian rigor and Dionysian instinct, fathers and sons, love and rejection, life and death.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:33PM"Red" is a drama about the modern artist and his place in art history: at the center is Mark Rothko's confrontation with fame and the commoditization of creativity in the contemporary art wo…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:21AMGreen Mountain Project's performance was music making at its best, historically informed, musically revealing, and sensitively and energetically performed -- one could not ask for more.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:56AMWhile many critics decried 2011 as a musical wasteland, New England residents can allow auld acquaintance to be forgot in 2012 with the cornucopia of music that's coming to the Northeast. Wa…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:59PMThis month and into February there is a treasure trove of rare treats and great opportunities to see all kinds of film around New England.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:55PMThe extraordinary intensity the ensemble achieved at soft dynamic levels and their very natural sense of the movement’s pacing were both quite impressive.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:28AMNow that the new year is here, midseason breaks are winding down, which makes it the perfect time to reflect on the television programs that premiered in the fall –- and will soon be back …
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