For a polarized nation, both pre-occupied and Occupied, the musical "Angel Reapers" is an inspiring Shaker gift.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:17AMWendy Artin is not just about representation. Her paintings bring up all sorts of questions about the complexities of beauty. How do we build up beauty from matter? What happens to beauty ov…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:40AMEssentially, Kaiser's plaint about the vanishing critic is useless because he, and so many other cultural kingpins worried about the end of professional criticism, offer no solutions.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:23PMWhile the BSO’s inventive program this week had the potential to plumb the heights and depths of human experience, Saturday’s performance generally lacked the necessary conviction, purpo…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:15PMYou see, Victor knows he is in a theater, telling stories. And he tells us this. His self-awareness as a performer gives him the freedom to be completely honest.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:39PMThe New Century Chamber Orchestra's ability to vividly bring to life music of delicate character was on full display in this concert, part of the 152nd Worcester Music Festival.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:22PMThe Chorus pro Musica is off to a good start for the season and can be looked to for continued artistry in the choral realm. The concert was, with my exceptions noted, a rewarding afternoon …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:36PMThe Australian Pink Floyd Show is a tribute band, but not just any tribute band. TAPFS is considered the best tribute band in the world today, a title they have defended since 1988.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:21PMThe awkward logic of "Anonymous" turns the initially stalwart Ben Jonson into a ludicrous double-dealer, who advances his supreme tribute (‘Soul of the age!’), to a man he knows to have …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:13PMMacbeth, Music by Giuseppe Verdi, Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave and Andrea Maffei. Staged by the Boston Lyric Opera at the Shubert Theatre, Boston, MA, through November 13. by Jonathan B…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:56PMThe nine tales found in "Maybe This Time" chart the unnerving psychological transformations of its characters. Its style forces us to reconsider our ways of reading and our childlike depende…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:40AMBoston’s Cantata Singers opens its 48th season with an eclectic musical mix of the Baroque and the Modern.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:36AMInescapably erotic, flowers are all about desire. What are they but a glorious exhibition and frame of their own genitals?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:51AMBetsy Burleigh was in command throughout the concert, and she is steering the Providence Singers in a solid direction.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:20PMEntertaining and provocative, this quick-witted and dreamlike evening of theater suggests that imbalances of power sacrifice individual freedoms and love. Everyone becomes a doll (either mas…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:37AMThe year is 1966, and the world is still in Technicolor even if the nuns are in black-and-white in "The Divine Angel."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:15PMAfter intermission, Mr. Lang closed the concert with Frederic Chopin’s Twelve Etudes (Op. 25). This is music in which Mr. Lang is completely in his element, and his performance of these fe…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:27PMNot only is TAPFS considered the best Pink Floyd tribute band, but it is argued that they are the best cover band in the world.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:05PMWhat makes one opinion better than another? (Some opinions have been challenged more than others. Tested opinions are worth more than untested ones.) Can't one enjoy an aesthetic experience …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:04AMNational Theatre director Bijan Sheibani chose artistry of movement, beautiful as it is, over the battering belittlement of really hard, unappreciated work, the facts of sweat and stupor.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:02PMGiven his full-throttle depiction of the myopia of middle class mores, Bruce Norris is more in the flamboyant satiric line of Sinclair Lewis, who also trained his sharp ear and eye on the Mi…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:12PMIn the coming week there will be screenings of a variety of horror films from over the decades -- you choose how you want your spine tingled. And don't forget to dress up
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:34AMPortugal. The Man is nothing if not a paradox -- the band is nostalgically avant-garde.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:53PMAs one of the most highly esteemed countertenors in the opera world today, Andreas Scholl did not disappoint, but radiated confidence and sincerity in his interpretations of some of Purcell�…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:04AMThroughout his career, conductor Kurt Masur has focused primarily on conducting the standard German repertoire, and now, at age 84, his mastery and understanding of this music is unmatched.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:29PMMichael Noone's understanding of the music’s time period and the molding of an outstanding concert is not without precedent in the greater Boston area, but he contributes significantly to …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:14PM"For an imaginative boy, the first experience of writing is like a tiger's first taste of blood.' -- H.G. Wells, "The New Machiavelli," 1911.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:11AM"Train Dreams" is an important little book, and Denis Johnson is an important big writer, and I hate to think of a time when he and a few others like him will not be there to protect us from…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:57AMJohn Coltrane was a mid-century genius of Modernism who masterfully synthesized the most important elements in both interconnected lines of descent: an African American tradition that stretc…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:38PMWith “Reverse Threads,” Regina Carter moves beyond conventional boundaries, her music a rich blend of jazz and world music—a cross-cultural exploration of modern and traditiona…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:08AMDespite some interpretive shortcomings, Sean Newhouse, the orchestra’s 30-year-old assistant conductor has solid technique, and a major orchestra whose players, management, and audience be…
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