Monday, June 13, 2016
The Bangs are masters in sending up the gelatinous sentimentality of popular culture, embracing it at the same time.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:13AMFriday, June 10, 2016
Time after time, when the cheap and easy outcome is there for the plucking, Me Before You ditches the teary payoffs.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:45PMTuesday, June 7, 2016
Josa-Jones is a unique mover, totally committed to her movement, and totally moving in every body part.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:02AMMonday, June 6, 2016
Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, theater, dance, music, visual arts, and author events for the coming week.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:40AMSaturday, June 4, 2016
This new restoration of Dragon Inn is not to be missed on the big screen.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:32PMFriday, June 3, 2016
Carl Palmer's ELP Legacy will perform its “Remembering Keith and the Music of Emerson, Lake & Palmer” show next week in Arlington.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:40AMWednesday, June 1, 2016
Let's just say that there's more than just absurdity for absurdity's sake here -- this is an exercise in wry Swiftian satire.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:01PMTuesday, May 31, 2016
Tim Winton's memoir about how deeply Australia's landscape shaped him and his writing.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:43AMSunday, May 29, 2016
Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, theater, dance, music, visual arts, and author events for the coming week.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:37PMFriday, May 27, 2016
Chevalier is a hilarious but unapologetic glimpse into bad behavior among men who fancy themselves among society’s elite.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:43AMThursday, May 26, 2016
At the Lyric Stage Company, Peter and the Starcatcher charms, but doesn’t quite take flight.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:20PMTuesday, May 24, 2016
Hearty congratulations to the 2016 Elliot Norton Award nominees and winners.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:40AMBoston's Debo Band expand their heterophonnic horizons on Ere Gobez.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:28AMMonday, May 23, 2016
It says something about where we are at as a country when the absurdist’s voice is the only one that is persuasively human.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:48AMSunday, May 22, 2016
I wanted to like Sunset Song, steeped as it is in Scottish history and scenery.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:33PMArts Fuse critics select the best in film, theater, dance, music, visual arts, and author events for the coming week.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:24PMThursday, May 19, 2016
"My hope is that in the near future the mainstream music pendulum will swing much more heavily towards giving jazz the attention it deserves."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:52AMDay of the Dead upends stereotypes and expectations, providing a compelling, exploratory trip through the Grateful Dead songbook.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:52AMWednesday, May 18, 2016
There's nothing quite like a Chandler Travis Philharmonic show.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:34AMMonday, May 16, 2016
If you think you know a fair bit about David Hockney’s career already, as I did, be prepared, you’ll learn a lot more.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:30AMSunday, May 15, 2016
Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, theater, dance, music, visual arts, and author events for the coming week.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:43AMFriday, May 13, 2016
High-Rise's urban apocalypse is laid on thick. One wishes for a modern existence that is not quite so alienating.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:50PMThursday, May 12, 2016
The director approaches his Star Wars interviewees with obvious glee, but he's also on a quest.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:22AMTuesday, May 10, 2016
What is there to say about an album that Rolling Stone ranked #2 in its 2003 list of “The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time”?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:43PMOh, it’s a strange world, ballet -- filled with rituals and practices that Mary Jane Doherty captures with sharp-eyed grace.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:26AMMonday, May 9, 2016
What interested me about Bitches Brew was the chance to discover how choreographer Karole Armitage re-rigs classical ballet steps.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:43AMSunday, May 8, 2016
Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, theater, dance, music, visual arts, and author events for the coming week.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:06PMSaturday, May 7, 2016
Once and For All asserts the value of Delmore Schwartz’s provocative and multifaceted literary legacy.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:50AMJohn Hiatt’s voice has taken on some Tom Waits-like cragginess in recent years.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:45AMFriday, May 6, 2016
Legally Blind contains plenty of satiric sting because it takes aim at the current fashion for musicals in which handicapped souls are healed.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:34PMAmazingly, the group’s 50th anniversary tour features three of the original members: lead singer/guitarist Jeff Hanna, string player John McEuen, and drummer Jimmie Fadden.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:34PM 
