Thursday, March 16, 2017
The Lure is often violent and disturbing, but its exuberance and unapologetic strangeness make it one of the most memorable foreign films in recent years.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 15, 2017
Children's connections to one another are layered and complex, and their understanding of the adult world more sophisticated than we usually allow.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:31AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 14, 2017
BODYTRAFFIC seems to be invested in a relentless likeability.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:06PM[SHARE]Monday, March 13, 2017
Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:48PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 12, 2017
If there is such a thing as upbeat melancholia, then Jens Lekman has got it down pat.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:12AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 11, 2017
Nora Theatre Company's thoughtful production of Precious Little will encourage you to dig a little deeper into yourself.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:03PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 7, 2017
The nagging question: why didn't the ICA didn't create a building that offered options to be developed vertically?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:54AM[SHARE]Monday, March 6, 2017
I was looking forward to XX because it was horror, it was an anthology, and because all four pieces were directed by women.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:48AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 5, 2017
Neal Brennan's mix-and-match of styles manages to combine deadpan sensibility with shocking poignancy.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:42PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 2, 2017
Any performance of Meredith Monk's is spare to the point of enigma, and also tremendously evocative.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:12PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 28, 2017
This endearing but unsentimental film explores the myriad connections that many Istanbul residents have to their feline neighbors.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:12PM[SHARE]The imperative to engage with landscape, and thus leave or at least minimize the self, has become of great importance to Peter Handke.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:54AM[SHARE]Monday, February 27, 2017
A beautiful, if somewhat meandering, series of vignettes on the writer's lifelong relationship with cigarettes.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:36PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 26, 2017
Arts Fuse critics select the best in theater, film, music, author events, and dance for the coming weeks.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:03PM[SHARE]Like a lot of first efforts by prospective masters, Artifact is loaded with ideas.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:42PM[SHARE]Friday, February 24, 2017
The MRT production marches clumsily along the fine line of being funny and knowing it is funny.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:32PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 23, 2017
Mark Lilla argues that the creed of the reactionary mind can be just as radical (and disturbing) as any revolutionary ideology.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:18PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 21, 2017
The performance turned out to be a nervy but hypnotic game of endurance for performer and audience members.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:42PM[SHARE]Don't Give Up the Ship is well worth the time of audience members seeking exciting, unconventional theater.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:32AM[SHARE]On this album, saxophonist Noah Preminger serves up his visceral reaction to the post-election state of affairs.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:36AM[SHARE]Monday, February 20, 2017
"My ancestors fled pogroms in Poland and today we have a crisis to rival what went on in the 1940s."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:06AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 18, 2017
Toni Erdmann gently but somewhat darkly reminds us that living life in the fast lane means missing out on its slower, humbler pleasures.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:48AM[SHARE]Friday, February 17, 2017
Session Americana has matured from a local, informal collective to a polished touring band.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:48AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 15, 2017
The Druid Theatre Company staging shows what amazing things happens when a group of artists work together fully and completely .
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:32AM[SHARE]Monday, February 13, 2017
Nothing in this over-lengthy work refers to whales, the ocean, or even the fishing industry.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:12PM[SHARE]Arts Fuse critics select the best in theater, film, music, author events, and dance for the coming weeks.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:12PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 9, 2017
Director Asghar Farhadi's most stringent judgments generally fall upon members of his own sophisticated, worldly cohort.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:06PM[SHARE]Poet William Benton's slender and beautiful book can safely be described as sui generis.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:06PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 8, 2017
Alex Beam generates interest via his portrait of frenemies Edmund Wilson and Vladimir Nabokov as brainy but flawed human beings.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:06PM[SHARE]This is more interesting than a sweeping survey, it is a portrait of an African-American musician whose career peaked in the Swing Era.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:24AM[SHARE]Monday, February 6, 2017
It's almost as important to see the Drive-By Truckers show at the Royale as to join a march in the streets outside.
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