Alan Brody’s play is a pleasant valentine, and it will likely find a life in regional and community theaters.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:48PMA difficult balancing act: marrying art with the community-based traditions of everyday rural life.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:48PMIf you want to see what courageous political satire really looks like, see Sara Taksler’s engaging new documentary about Bassem Youssef.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:42PMChuck Prophet's rollicking sound now is a lot more thoughtful than of yore -- without losing any of its rollick.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:42AMThis is a fine exercise in arthouse horror -- don’t expect elaborate monsters, an orchestral score, or CGI effects.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:24AMThis is a relatively small but stunning selection of Picasso's finest prints, a collection that reflects the artist's range of inspiration.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:12AMThe exhibition provides a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to view masterpieces of the decorative arts.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:06PMThe Complete Jean Renoir -- a definitive retrospective of films by the greatest of all directors.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:12AMThe stunning show Frank Stella Prints offers visual entertainment at its most exhilarating.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:06AMFor John O’Reilly, encountering mental states of disorder and nightmare created a yearning for a kind of clarity.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:06AMSummer of Love's line-up contains some of that iconic year's most indelible works of cinema.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:42PMArts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, theater, music, visual arts, and author events for the coming weeks.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:06PMJAG Productions' goal is to stage plays that reflect the lives of African-Americans -- in Vermont, the second-whitest state in the nation.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:33PMLarge parts, if not all, of this well played, eclectic disc should appeal to various tastes in modern improvised music.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:48AMThe program's goal is to educate young people about writing arts criticism.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:24PMDenis Johnson sees that New Age thinking is a response to something very American, very late-twentieth-century—namely the precariousness of identity.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:54PMDenis Johnson’s spiritual vision was dark and more than a little scary but also supremely generous.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:54PMIn his profound new book Age of Anger, historian Pankaj Mishra finds the key to Trump-worship.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:18AMLope de Vega's classic story of how the powerless stood up to authority -- and won --deserves better treatment than clumsy caricature.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:05PMMatisse said his objects were his "working library," sources to mine for formal qualities and their ability to evoke an emotional response.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:05PMEllen Taaffe Zwilich has an uncanny understanding of what instruments can do and how to showcase them best.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:06PMAll three pieces delivered eclectic dancing, appealing bodies, unostentatious scenic effects, and trendy but serious music.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:54AMIt is now possible for visitors to explore the MASS MoCA museum complex via a continual loop of 4.5 miles.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:36PMHypnotized by celebrity and the monied class, our stage critics have become a gaggle of cheerleaders, feckless enough to call Diane Paulus a "visionary."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:42AMRapture is a worthwhile curio that grapples, entertainingly, with Modernism's artistic, structural, and revolutionary quandaries.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:42PMArts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:12PMIn essence, Arrabal is a celebration of Argentina’s wonderful dance tradition, the Tango.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:18PMThis production's approach to Bulgakov's source material is refreshing in its directness; it's also bursting with visual and auditory inventiveness.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:54PMOffering a carefully calibrated, nearly static universe, Beth Gill relies on the audience's imagination to fill in any question marks
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:48PMAll of three of these ballets adapted the classical vocabulary and demonstrated that constant evolution is what keeps classicism alive.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:24PMWe are given a priceless opportunity to see how Matisse's mind worked and the ways his creative process unfolded.
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