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Sunday, March 13, 2016

Fuse Coming Attractions: March 13 through 22 — What Will Light Your Fire This Week by Arts Fuse Editor

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 05:46PM
Saturday, March 12, 2016

Fuse Film Review: “Trapped” — Our Bodies, Our Clinics by Arts Fuse Editor

When it comes to women's reproductive rights it is looking an awful lot like The Handmaid’s Tale out there, folks.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:31PM
Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Fuse Dance Feature: Kelley Donovan — “The Body Becomes Messenger” by Arts Fuse Editor

Kelley Donovan & Dancers returns to Boston with a production that challenges the emotional and physical resilience of the human body.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:44AM
Tuesday, March 8, 2016

Fuse Film Review: “London Has Fallen” — Jingoism “R” Us by Arts Fuse Editor

This might be seen as the first film inspired by potential presidency of Donald Trump.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:01PM
Monday, March 7, 2016

Fuse Classical Music Interview: Conductor Kent Nagano’s Emotional Return to Boston by Arts Fuse Editor

The Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal programs a lot of new music but that is not the point.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:13AM
Sunday, March 6, 2016

Fuse Coming Attractions: March 6 through 15 — What Will Light Your Fire This Week by Arts Fuse Editor

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 03:00PM
Saturday, March 5, 2016

Fuse Stage Review: Not much of a “Cakewalk” by Arts Fuse Editor

An air of anachronism hangs over the ZSC production of Cakewalk, particularly regarding its treatment of racial and social issues.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:55AM
Friday, March 4, 2016

Fuse Feature: Icelandic Culture Invades Boston by Arts Fuse Editor

This year's Taste of Iceland is bringing in only one film, Rock in Reykjavik, and it is screening only once.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:56AM
Thursday, March 3, 2016

Fuse Dance Review: Russian Romantics — John Cranko’s “Onegin” at Boston Ballet by Arts Fuse Editor

The rapturous reaction to Boston Ballet's performance on Sunday afternoon demonstrated that this kind of work can still move an audience.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:54PM

Fuse News: Arts Emerson Presents a Magisterial “Three Sisters” by Arts Fuse Editor

By Helen Epstein There will be a longer review to come, but the run of the Maly Drama Theatre of St. Petersburg’s production of Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters is so short — …

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:22AM
Wednesday, March 2, 2016

Fuse Book Interview: Edgar Allan Poe — America’s Maestro of Suffering by Arts Fuse Editor

The Annotated Poe invites readers to take a fresh look at Edgar Allan Poe and his far-ranging artistic legacy.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:49AM
Monday, February 29, 2016

Fuse Coming Attractions: February 29 through March 8 — What Will Light Your Fire This Week by Arts Fuse Editor

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 04:34PM

Fuse Dance Review: Revolution in Reverb – Bolshoi Postmodern in HD by Arts Fuse Editor

Introduced by gigantic moving set-pieces and robots with prison searchlights for eyes, Bolt often looks like poster art.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:16AM

Fuse Music Review: Jason Isbell, Laid-Back — More Country Than Country-Rock by Arts Fuse Editor

Jason Isbell has got sober, and his songs ring with the urgency of the newly recovered (and newly remarried, to his violinist Amanda Shires).

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:43AM
Sunday, February 28, 2016

Fuse Coming Attractions: February 28 Events by Arts Fuse Editor

This week's Coming Attractions will be posted later today, but here are two events of note that are taking place today, Sunday, February 28.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:46PM

Fuse Oscar Predictions 2016 — Who Should Win? Who Will Win? by Arts Fuse Editor

Eight nominees? WTF, Academy? If you’re going to change the structure to allow ten nominees, then have ten nominees!

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:27PM
Thursday, February 25, 2016

Fuse Visual Arts: Stunning “Intersections” at Peabody Essex Museum by Arts Fuse Editor

In a period of radicalism and terrorism, this installation serves as a beacon for remembering the beauty of the best of Islamic creative culture.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:34AM
Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Fuse Theater Review: “1984″ — It’s Later Than You Think by Arts Fuse Editor

1984's theatrical vision of authoritarianism in action is not for the faint of heart.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:37AM
Monday, February 22, 2016

Fuse Commentary: Reviving Memories of BSO Superstar Conductor Serge Koussevitzky by Arts Fuse Editor

Hardly any of the under-60s generation can tell you who Serge Koussevitzky was or what his legacy consists of.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:16PM
Sunday, February 21, 2016

Fuse Coming Attractions: February 21 through March 1 — What Will Light Your Fire This Week by Arts Fuse Editor

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 01:20PM
Saturday, February 20, 2016

Fuse Film Review: “The Witch” — Mother Nature’s a Bitch and So am I by Arts Fuse Editor

The Witch's brief jolts of violence seem perfectly calibrated to knock us out of our seats..

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:33AM

Fuse Dance Review: Sampling the Spectrum — BB@Home, Boston Ballet School by Arts Fuse Editor

Sunday afternoon's hourlong program in BB@Home series took us from the nineteenth century to this very minute.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:22AM
Friday, February 19, 2016

Fuse Film Review: “Lou Montgomery: Legacy Restored” — Mission Accomplished by Arts Fuse Editor

This compact documentary presents a poignant picture of the intersection of segregation, enlightenment, and failure in America's institutions of higher education.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:37PM

Fuse Visual Arts Review: Picasso at the MFA by Arts Fuse Editor

This exhibition at the MFA gives us as chance to walk about a delightful island in the wide sea of Picasso works.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:51AM
Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Fuse Poetry Review: “ask anyone” — Giving a Slant to Meaning by Arts Fuse Editor

Ruth Lepson's method in these poems is to encourage us listen as carefully as she does.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:15AM
Monday, February 15, 2016

Fuse Film Review: “45 Years” — The Real Thing by Arts Fuse Editor

In a period of comic book action dribble, 45 Years shows the world that films can probe reality, with enormous beauty and depth.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:56AM
Sunday, February 14, 2016

Fuse Coming Attractions: February 14 through 23— What Will Light Your Fire This Week by Arts Fuse Editor

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 12:49PM
Saturday, February 13, 2016

Fuse Book Review: “And Again” — Biological Engineering, Predictable Construction by Arts Fuse Editor

What’s most interesting about And Again is precisely what gets the least narrative attention.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:32AM
Friday, February 12, 2016

Fuse Dance Review: Outreachers – CATALYSTS at the Dance Complex, Central Square by Arts Fuse Editor

Women still dominate the dance field as performers and choreographers.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:37AM
Wednesday, February 10, 2016

Fuse Film Review: “The Finest Hours” — Enjoyable, Reliable, Predictable by Arts Fuse Editor

The Finest Hours gives the audience two hours of fast moving, visually pleasing, easily digestible entertainment.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:28AM

Fuse Music Interview Soul Journeyman Lee Fields — Reaching Euphoria by Arts Fuse Editor

Soul journeyman Lee Fields and the Expressions explore new territory.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:56AM

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