Sunday, 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 10:03AMSaturday, August 29, 2015
You could walk from Inman Square to Harvard, see Muddy Waters or John Lee Hooker play, and have your whole worldview changed.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:00AMWednesday, August 26, 2015
There’s no question Jon Stewart had the attention of millions but, all kidding aside, was he a part of the political game or just a color commentator?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:22AMThis anthology is thought-provoking and often moving; a spearhead into a relatively undiscussed new demographic.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:22AMTuesday, August 25, 2015
More than a mere novel, The Wake is really a medieval epic poem to an English way of life that would be erased forever.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:16AMA friendly energy runs through the heart of The Road to Where, a tangible and inviting companionship.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:22AMMonday, August 24, 2015
Lady Macbeth and Her Lover is a determinedly somber play that tries to attain the feel of classic tragedy.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:54AMSunday, August 23, 2015
The artist knows that beauty, and even the sublime, on their own terms are not enough to cut it in the competitive field of contemporary art.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:39PMA few quibbles aside, the musical Waitress plays and sounds like it’s close to ready for the Broadway big time.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:36AMSaturday, August 22, 2015
The final impression left by The Flick is one of exhilaration.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:52AMFriday, August 21, 2015
It was rather shocking to see Gregg Allman in such good shape this week: He looked as fit and trim as he has in decades.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:56AMWednesday, August 19, 2015
Conventional wisdom says that audiences will mutiny if you don’t give ‘em all the hits, but this crowd danced all the way through Santana's eclectic setlist.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:46PMA lazy night of Shakespearean mayhem in New York's Riverside Park.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:14AMTuesday, August 18, 2015
Current Mayor Marty Walsh has justifiably called for better design for Boston’s new structures.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:06AMMonday, August 17, 2015
His Girl Friday is a stirring celebration of the power of journalism that not only amuses but manages to be troubling as well.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:33AMThursday, August 13, 2015
The End of the Tour don't remain a hall of mirrors but become a bridge that conveys its subject’s honest, painful humanity.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:32AMTuesday, August 11, 2015
While Ernie Smith's rich baritone and playful lyrics are too often absent from venues and festivals, but he's found a New England champion in the Rhode Island band Soul Shot.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:33PMNeurosis is among the pioneers of the so-called post-metal sound, which knots the heavy and the heady into myriad patterns.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:51AMMonday, August 10, 2015
In this entertaining satire of empire, Christian Kracht makes use of a nihilistic magic realism, without the sweetness one normally associates with that mode.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:33AMSaturday, August 8, 2015
Dark Places fumbles and stumbles as it tries, but fails, to follow all of the possible solutions to the whodunit.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:31AMFew people are familiar with the achievement of nineteenth century African-American Shakespearean actor Ira Aldridge.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:16AMFriday, August 7, 2015
We will always need critics to show us how literature works by revering it rather than interrogating it as if it had committed a crime.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:10AMThursday, August 6, 2015
The Bush Tetras -- who’ve been on-off reunited since 1995, but haven’t hit Boston in nearly two decades -- headline at the Sinclair this Saturday.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:21PMWednesday, August 5, 2015
One of Unknown Soldier's powerful choices is that its central characters are not your standard young lovers.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:45PMMonday, August 3, 2015
Even if you manage to overlook the objectionable ethics of the film, The Stanford Prison Experiment simply doesn't work as a gripping drama.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:27PMPerhaps there's no way to reproduce the subtlety of this work in the theater today. Our stages are so materialistic, so technological. .
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:39PMSaturday, August 1, 2015
This astutely curated exhibit explores the presence of architecture in contemporary sculpture.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:28PMFriday, July 31, 2015
The relationship between a now-single mother and her bright, troubled daughter makes for a convincing, pertinent, and deeply funny play.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:40PMThe play's made up of domestic confrontations in which dramatist Suzanne Heathcote at times moves past moments of high tension at high speed.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:54AMTuesday, July 28, 2015
Al Pacino, playing the title character, delivers his most impressive performance since he starred in Terrence McNally's Frankie and Johnny a quarter century ago.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:38AMScott Robinson brings the spirit of pulp fiction, and a love of outer space, to the Newport Jazz Festival.
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