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Wednesday, February 10, 2016

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
Monday, February 8, 2016

Fuse Film Review: “The Choice” — Nothing to Hang Your Heart On by Arts Fuse Editor

Clear some room on the mantle of cinematic disgrace for The Choice, an utterly drippy romance.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:52PM

Fuse Theater Review: “Milk Like Sugar” — Vivid Snapshots of Confused Lives by Arts Fuse Editor

Milk Like Sugar cries out for dialogue and confrontations that direct us deeper into the conflicts the young women face.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:20PM
Sunday, February 7, 2016

Fuse Coming Attractions: February 7 through 16 — 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 01:14PM
Friday, February 5, 2016

Fuse Theater Review: “An Octoroon” — Racist Melodrama, Post-Modern Version by Arts Fuse Editor

Company One's actors are top notch and they expertly serve the production's antiquated style of non-realistic acting.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:34PM
Sunday, January 31, 2016

Fuse Coming Attractions: January 31 through February 9 —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 12:40PM

Fuse Dance Review: Dada Masilo’s “Swan Lake” — An Entertainment Full of Heart and Art by Arts Fuse Editor

South African choreographer Dada Masilo goes even further into the Swan Lake fantasy: here, the characters, men and women, are all swans.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:16AM
Thursday, January 28, 2016

Fuse Book Review: “Symphony for the City of the Dead” — On Art and Human Survival by Arts Fuse Editor

M. T. Anderson writes with a compellingly dark tone and a keen eye for characterization worthy of adult readership.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:16AM
Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Visual Arts Review: “Drawing Redefined” — Philosophically Speaking by Arts Fuse Editor

Put simply, this is a drawing show without drawings.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:12AM
Sunday, January 24, 2016

Fuse Coming Attractions: January 24 through February 2 —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 12:56PM
Saturday, January 23, 2016

Fuse Book Review: Books about Rock n’ Roll — Some Rock, Some Don’t by Arts Fuse Editor

The success of Patti Smith’s memoir Just Kids, has meant an uptick in the number of new rock n’ roll books hitting the racks.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:37AM

Fuse Film Review: “The President” — Saving the Soul of a Monster by Arts Fuse Editor

The President doesn't try to drum up easy sympathy for its arrogant anti-hero.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:33AM
Thursday, January 21, 2016

Fuse Classical Music Review: The Composer Focus Series Asks — “Mozart?” by Arts Fuse Editor

This performance of contemporary pieces inspired by Mozart came with a touch of the playfully interrogative.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:24AM
Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Fuse Event: Time For a Fusical! An Awards Evening Whimsical and Electrical by Arts Fuse Editor

Be there for the birth of The Arts Fuse awards for outstanding contribution to the arts in New England.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:25PM
Monday, January 18, 2016

Fuse Music Preview: Lettuce — Creating the Funk of Tomorrow by Arts Fuse Editor

Lettuce is in the midst of a headlining tour; on January 22 the group will be back on its old stomping grounds in Boston..

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:32AM
Sunday, January 17, 2016

Fuse Coming Attractions: January 17 through 26 —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 01:01PM
Saturday, January 16, 2016

Fuse Concert Review: Boston Artists Ensemble — Chamber Music Done Right by Arts Fuse Editor

The Boston Artists Ensemble performance was full of bravado, virtuosity, subtlety, and charm.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:52AM
Friday, January 15, 2016

Fuse Remembrance: Alan Rickman — An Actor who Embodied Evil, Heartbreak, and Mystery by Arts Fuse Editor

Rickman was that rare actor whose dependable, low-key intensity was punctuated just often enough hilarity or insanity to make his characters unforgettable.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:16AM
Thursday, January 14, 2016

Fuse Film Review: “Troublemakers” — Aesthetic Agitation on a Gargantuan Scale by Arts Fuse Editor

Land art is an outgrowth of the rebellious '60s; radicalism taking the form of ambitious topographical rearangment.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:58PM

Fuse Remembrance: Bowie on Film — Ageless Enigmas by Arts Fuse Editor

Bowie the Legendary Rock Star and Bowie the Fashion Chameleon were flashier, bolder, than Bowie the Cinematic Iconoclast.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:21PM
Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Fuse Remembrance: Appreciating David Bowie — A Virtuoso of Intimacy. by Arts Fuse Editor

I trust Bowie, the way I trust Stevie or Miles or Aretha or Duke or Bach or Debussy or Ornette or Rahsaan or the recently departed Paul Bley.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:27PM

Fuse TV Commentary: The Golden Globes — Reliably Disappointing by Arts Fuse Editor

The Golden Globes Equation: Glitz + Glamor + Action = Win.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:09AM
Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Fuse Music Interview: Tim Jackson — on Robin Lane, The Band That Time Forgot, Johnny D’s, and the End of an Era by Arts Fuse Editor

"I hope that these new venues still want to book the occasional seasoned musician, because audiences of all ages still love rock and roll."

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:39AM

Fuse Visual Arts Remembrance: Industrial Designer Richard Sapper by Arts Fuse Editor

Steve Jobs approached Sapper about heading up design for Apple. Politely, he declined the offer because he was too busy at the time.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:39AM
Monday, January 11, 2016

Fuse Remembrance: Prime David Bowie – Let’s Paint Our Faces and Dance by Arts Fuse Editor

Before Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground, before Iggy Pop, before the New York Dolls, David Bowie was my personal post-'60s music inamorata.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:26PM

Fuse Book Review: The Lucidly Chilling “Massacre on the Merrimack” — The Woman Who Killed Indians by Arts Fuse Editor

Jay Atkinson does a great service to the complexities of history by portraying the bloody tragedy of each side’s mutually deadly incomprehension.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:54AM
Sunday, January 10, 2016

Fuse Coming Attractions: January 10 through 19 —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 02:04PM
Saturday, January 9, 2016

Fuse Review: “The Revenant” — Where Have You Gone, Sam Peckinpah? by Arts Fuse Editor

The implausibility of The Revenant is jaw-dropping.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:15AM
Wednesday, January 6, 2016

Fuse Film Review: “Mustang” — Passion, Caged by Arts Fuse Editor

Despite being entrapped in a controlling social order, the sisters behave as most adolescents do: sometimes impulsively.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:31PM
Monday, January 4, 2016

Fuse Film Review: Hell is the Nervous Laughter of Tom Noonan — Charlie Kaufman’s Inscrutable “Anomalisa” by Arts Fuse Editor

Charlie Kaufman crafts worlds where people find love in unlikely places, and lose love so easily you’d think they actually want to be miserable.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:44AM
Sunday, January 3, 2016

Fuse Coming Attractions: January 3 through 12 —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 01:19PM

All that Chat

2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 11, 2024: Oh, Mary! - Lyceum Theatre
Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
Sep 12, 2024: The Roommate - Booth Theatre
Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace Theatre
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
Mar 17, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 01, 2025: Glengarry Glen Ross
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre
TBA: Titanic