Friday, October 9, 2015
Veils moves from political rallies to private show-downs, from blog exposition to deft, direct, and sometimes swiftly nuanced dialogues.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:48AMThursday, October 8, 2015
I have a short list of the greatest singers I’ve seen live—and Colin Blunstone of the Zombies is right up there.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:33AMMonday, October 5, 2015
All of the pieces in this exhibition are both well designed and smartly executed -- apt examples of just how smart and complex purely 'decorative' objects can be.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:08AMSunday, October 4, 2015
In this interview Dave Davies discusses his solo show and gives us the latest on the ongoing Kinks intrigues.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:46PMArts Fuse critics select the best in film, theater, music, visual arts, and author events for the coming week.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:46PMSaturday, October 3, 2015
Complex and nuanced, Breathe thankfully owes little to our current assembly line of teen angst flicks.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:40PMThursday, October 1, 2015
Although there is a strangely dour tinge to this biography of Peggy Guggenheim, Francine Prose is ultimately fair.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:16PMit’s useful to be reminded that Ronald Reagan, the revered All-American icon, was more simulacrum than savior.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:58AMWednesday, September 30, 2015
We begin our survey with one of my favorite musical discoveries of the last three years: Camille Saint-Saëns’ Symphony in E-flat, op. 2.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:16AMTuesday, September 29, 2015
Theo Jansen's kinetic sculptures delightfully blur the conventional lines that divide art, science, and storytelling.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:38AMSunday, September 27, 2015
Madonna's show made for spectacular eye and ear candy. But what was it all about? That’s where things got a little hazy.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:25PMSaturday, September 26, 2015
This modest film manages to hold the viewer's attention, not to mention his or her compassion, throughout.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:26AMWhat seems to be a constant is a feeling that it is miraculous that these works have come into being, and that they are unlike any other kind of drawing.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:26AMThursday, September 24, 2015
Israeli Stage has opened its sixth season, which is dedicated exclusively to female playwrights, with a haunting work that examines the complicity of an ordinary German in the Holocaust.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:57AMIt’s the rare breed of rock band that makes such meaningful music so deep into its career.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:57AMWednesday, September 23, 2015
These drawings are invitations to view the world in an active way, to encourage us to exercise (and stretch) our minds.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:02AMTuesday, September 22, 2015
Boston Ballet's reconstructed versions of Yakobson's Pas de Quatre and four Choreographic Miniatures were a revelation.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:19PMRarely is an actor so completely miscast in such a pivotal role.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:40AMWednesday, September 16, 2015
A fascinating documentary in which you get both a Paul Taylor dance and the making of the dance.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:20AMTuesday, September 15, 2015
“It was a dream of mine for many years to present the very best Asian dancers such as Cloud Gate for our audience and for dancers in the Pioneer Valley."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:48AMMonday, September 14, 2015
One of the hardest things to do as a writer of contemporary fiction is to create characters who are good.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:07PMSunday, September 13, 2015
is one high-energy spectacle: it is far more of a performance art piece than a 'well made' play.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:14PMSinger-songwriter Jackie Greene's new tunes are comfortable without being lazy -- this is a musician who flourishes in a more relaxed environment.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:55PMFriday, September 11, 2015
From the opening moment of this show, suspension of disbelief flies out the window and never returns.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:25AMSaturday, September 5, 2015
Playwright Deborah Zoe Laufer has done a marvelous job of blending weighty ideas into a very human context.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:34AMThursday, September 3, 2015
Love and Money is a short play, lengthened beyond one-act duration by stuffing a Cole Porter interlude into its middle.'
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:01PMClaims that Stephan Micus erases international boundaries and makes one-world music get it backward. You visit his world on his records.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:14AMWednesday, September 2, 2015
Here is a random roster of playgoing pests, may Thespis strike each of them dumb.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:00PMTuesday, September 1, 2015
Neither dancers nor the dance audience are out on the barricades demanding more and better dance coverage.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:14AMMonday, August 31, 2015
John Taylor introduces readers to an amazing array of sensibilities and life histories in a babel of languages and from an atlas of nations.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:58AMSunday, August 30, 2015
James Lecesne's one-man show delivers just what it promises....a lot of laughs and a few tears as well.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:03AM 
