Friday, July 3, 2015
The venerable Priscilla Beach Theatre was in danger of crumbling away -- but it has been fully restored and is swinging into a summertime season of musicals.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:20AMSo there was the Ornette Coleman Quartet, leading off the final side of vinyl with a cut that changed my life, “Lonely Woman.”
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:39AMThursday, July 2, 2015
In many ways, Alan Ayckbourn in Intimate Exchanges has concocted the perfect recipe for a company like the Peterborough Players.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:40AMWednesday, July 1, 2015
“Ballet is only good when it is great,” the legendarily unblinking dance critic Arlene Croce once wrote; whenever I bring that judgement to mind it makes me both swallow hard and sigh so…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:42PMPam Tanowitz's performance seemed to be as much about the connections among artists and their ideas as about the unanticipated gaps between them.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:30AMTuesday, June 30, 2015
The Theodore Baird House is a special place; the only Frank Lloyd Wright structure in Massachusetts.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:37AMMonday, June 29, 2015
Looked at on his own terms Thomas Hart Benton is an American Master and deserves to be reconsidered.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:58PMSunday, June 28, 2015
In A Swedish Love Story, Roy Andersson muses on the meaning of life, but for the first and last time he expresses his sense of life's absurdity through an accessible plot line.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:22PMSaturday, June 27, 2015
Cinderella isn’t a lavish spectacle à la the Met, but rather, like its heroine, modest on the surface while pulsing with a generous heart underneath; it is gently silly here and sincerely…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:08AMFriday, June 26, 2015
Wednesday, June 24, 2015
One thing I’ve learned in years of being a Rush fan: Nobody ever changes their mind on this band.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:58PMA mixed evaluation of the contributions of two New England artists -- Joan Jonas and Mark Dion -- at this year's Venice Biennale.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:25PMTuesday, June 23, 2015
Tomorrow, Misty Copeland will be American Ballet Theatre's first African-American ballerina to perform the lead role in Swan Lake in New York City.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:08PMMonday, June 22, 2015
He came up with one of those transcendent Richard Thompson moments, one to match anything I’ve seen onstage this year.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:02AMThursday, June 18, 2015
The best of Kageyama Kōyō's photography contains a nuanced dramatic power that is both aesthetic and political.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:20PMWednesday, June 17, 2015
M.I.T.'s Sean Collier Memorial does not make a full-bodied artistic statement -- it does not elicit a strongly felt aesthetic or visceral reaction.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:03AMTuesday, June 16, 2015
Rose Marasco’s strong sensibility is always at work, searching for contrasts to capture in her photos.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:40AMMonday, June 15, 2015
With most of his contemporaries doing reunion tours or playing decades-old albums, Paul Weller is one of the few claiming his right to be a still-evolving artist.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:30PMSaturday, June 13, 2015
Scripts of this well-intentioned variety are big on exalting forgiveness and empathy – calls for justice are rare for obvious reasons.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:47AMThursday, June 11, 2015
“Pentalum” is an example of soft, temporal architecture: its geometric sculptural forms push against the boundaries of an interactive environmental art installation.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:40PMSunday, June 7, 2015
Actor Russell Crowe's directorial debut is visually gripping and very well acted -- but its ending is disappointingly hokey.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:25PMSaturday, June 6, 2015
Paul Dano invests the younger Brian Wilson with focused ecstasy, especially during his creation of the landmark album, Pet Sounds.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:52AMThursday, June 4, 2015
The sound was often so inviting that it seemed Wire were easing comfortably into middle age.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:27AMTuesday, June 2, 2015
What if Alfred Hitchcock had sat out behind his Holmby Hills bungalow, smoking clove cigarettes and writing chick-lit novels?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:50PMAloha comes across as Cameron Crowe's baffling artistic suicide note to his adoring public.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:57AMMonday, June 1, 2015
Despite the neglect from the local media, The Boston blues scene is strong.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:36AMSunday, May 31, 2015
Iris Apfel a witty New York fashion icon, now in her nineties, is living her career to the fullest.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:22AMSaturday, May 30, 2015
Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano understands that time periods can mesh, interpenetrate, layer up, blend, and blur naturally in the mind.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:33AMFriday, May 29, 2015
Marah Strauch’s documentary tries to fathom Carl Boenish’s motive for taking his last leap.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:50PMPeople bonded with the product Mad Men was selling, but what were they falling for?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:28PMPatrick Dougherty's Stickwork is a remarkable piece of public art.
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