Chances to hear conjunto music in New England are rare; bravo to the Lowell Folk Festival and Rhode Island's Rhythm and Roots.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:48AMI enjoyed the working-out of all this material, and the beautiful dancers, but I sometimes felt I was back in the consciousness-raising '60s and '70s.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:54AMWith Vibrations: A Sound Experience, Boston CyberArts continued to live up to its demanding mandate -- to expand our artistic horizons.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:48PMDave Hanson’s comic confection, Waiting for Waiting for Godot, is generating plenty of giggles in the back room theater at Club Café.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:18AMEven after death, the human instinct is to kill or be killed.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:18AMPerhaps what makes bill Knott’s poetry so addictive is his uncanny ability to turn language inside out.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:06PMCanada's Stratford Festival is offering a rare (and treasurable) opportunity to see this Middleton/Rowley gem performed on stage.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:36AMArts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual arts, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:42PMIn this superb production, George Bernard Shaw's version of Wonder Woman is far from a comic book savior.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:06AMBill Maher’s once robust contrarian streak has shriveled over time.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:48PMExpanding Abstraction is a success because it does what it set out to do: to highlight the visions of New England’s female abstract painters.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:04AMConductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin does dazzlingly right by the symphonies of Mendelssohn.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:12PMGiven the country's current existential crisis, this genre-bending, ambitious-to-the-max debut novel about an uprising in Puerto Rico comes at the perfect time.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:36AMThe interviewees sound warnings about how we have self-sorted, online and in the real world, into echo-chamber communities of like-minded people.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:24AMChildren of the Wild’s Daniel Shays is the ideal response to the once popular 19th century Ballad of Daniel Shays.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:48PMA romp in and around a centuries-old Italian convent, acting out a 14th-century story using contemporary American idiom and attitude.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:42AMArts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual arts, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:48PMThe Beguiled is a beautifully-shot, atmospheric thriller with a daring take on sexual autonomy and dynamics.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:04AMThe CTC's first production of the summer is an unqualified delight.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:12PMReading Little Kisses is reassuring -- and that is a valuable attribute given the times we are living in.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:06AMThe history and process of judicial selection -- dispassionately detailed.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:33AMThe odds have never been more stacked against a Summer of Love.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:54AMThe idea of the project is to cross-fertilize new dance in the two cities (Boston and New York) by presenting choreography in cabaret settings.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:33AMTwo stories about how a public process, because of politics, can make it very difficult, and costly, to connect two points.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:06PMThese are men who appreciated women for their bodies, athleticism, motherhood, intelligence, and humor - all reasons to celebrate this show.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:42PMWisely, guitarist John Mayer does not try to copy Jerry Garcia’s memorable licks, solos, tones, and styles.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:04AMArts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual arts, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:42PMUnfortunately, poetry doesn’t sell and doesn’t get made into movies.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:04AMBolivian author Liliana Colanzi delivers some risky, but important, messages in these enigmatic stories.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:18AMIn Trouble in Paradise, Lubitsch makes us feel complicit in the best of ways; he makes us feel clever.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:18AMAlan Brody’s play is a pleasant valentine, and it will likely find a life in regional and community theaters.
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