Tuesday, September 30, 2014
To my mind, with Assembly of the Souls, composer Eitan Steinberg is working in Pulitzer contention territory.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:17AMWednesday, September 17, 2014
On September 21, giant author puppets will be on parade in Mansfield, CT.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:30PMSaturday, September 13, 2014
The centennial of the author of Make Way For Ducklings is being celebrated with a series of lectures by scholar Leonard S. Marcus.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:56AMMonday, September 8, 2014
It's important for there to be funds, curators, institutions, and audiences for art that can speak truth to power in unconstrained ways.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:48PMThe pleasures of Joni Mitchell: In Her Own Words are the pleasures of being a fly on the wall.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:52AMFriday, August 15, 2014
Doug Elkins' take on Othello is entirely of our era, when domestic abuse is finally a public discussion and a complex story of betrayal can be conveyed with pop culture efficiency.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:20PMFriday, June 27, 2014
There is now an online "sonic census" of puppetry in the greater Boston area.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:15AMTuesday, June 24, 2014
Rebecca's spirit will persist in every artist who remembers how much she believed in them, every organization that she urged to greater risk-taking and optimism for the future, and every fri…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:09PMMonday, June 23, 2014
In red gloves and dark glasses, popping and locking, the Wondertwins are both imposing humans and robotic objects, organic and mechanical reproduction.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:57AMFriday, June 20, 2014
Rufus Wainwright is like that: unfiltered family love and dysfunction threaded through whammo pop tunes wrapped in the sequins of more than a little clear-to-those-who-know celebrity.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:47AMFriday, May 16, 2014
Mark Morris' choreography for his 18-member ensemble alternates between joyful ring-around-the-rosy and contra dance circles.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:41PMTuesday, May 13, 2014
This is what I call an example of a critic making an impact!
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:54PMMonday, May 12, 2014
Carrying cacti around the stage in boxes and placing them on their heads and in predictably suggestive positions, the Boston Ballet dancers looked like they were having a blast
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:27PMSaturday, May 10, 2014
Fred Turner's counterintuitive and subtle argument in The Democratic Surround draws a direct line between the design of museum exhibitions and the Be-Ins of the Summer of Love.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:03PMThursday, May 8, 2014
Artists, Writers, Thinkers, Dreamers: Portraits of 50 Famous Folks & All Their Weird Stuff is a weird cartoon bait-and-switch.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:28AMThursday, May 1, 2014
Comic genres don't die; they just become niche markets.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:50AMThursday, April 17, 2014
British Pathe's 85,000 (some sites say 90,000, but who's counting?) newsreels are now online.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:09PMMonday, April 7, 2014
"Falling Out of Time" is a book that gives all the truth that Israeli writer David Grossman can deliver, and far more intimacy than we strangers who are his readers have earned.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:34PMSaturday, March 29, 2014
Israel's Nalaga’at Theater Deaf-Blind Acting Ensemble, whose name translates to “Do Touch,” is on a U.S. tour that included a side visit to the White House.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:52PMWednesday, March 26, 2014
The Fuse doesn't usually publicize auditions, but it's news that Debbie Allen is swinging through Boston this week seeking young dancers between the ages of seven and 22.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:20PMFanny Lou Hamer's life and the political struggle that gave us the Voting Rights Act is the basis of Mary Watkins' two-act opera.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:40AMTuesday, March 18, 2014
It was not the first time the Sarajevo Haggadah had benefited from Muslim protection: during the Nazi occupation, another librarian had spirited the Hebrew manuscript out of danger and hidde…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:02PMMonday, March 17, 2014
Boston Ballet is showcasing a number of its ballerinas in the title role of Cinderella.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:03AMFriday, February 28, 2014
If calculating pi to a far-off-integer isn't for you, TAO Dance Theater's baffling kinetic exploits may seem less like an incredible journey than a trudge to a dead end.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:47PMSaturday, February 8, 2014
I get why Compagnie Käfig's Correria/Agwa has been booked onto stages in 15 countries and counting. But the troupe's polished athleticism comes at the sacrifice of hip hop dance's precious …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:35AMFriday, February 7, 2014
Dancer Wendy Whelan will not be appearing under the auspices of the Celebrity Series of Boston as planned.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:05PMFriday, January 31, 2014
Arts alert for readers in the Pioneer Valley.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:26AMMonday, January 27, 2014
No amount of postmodern theory can paper over the fact that a half-baked cake, even one made with tasty ingredients, fails to satisfy.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:14PMTuesday, January 21, 2014
With a Stephen Sondheim show, it's all in the casting, and Emmanuel Music's casting was a mixed bag.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:35AMSunday, January 12, 2014
John Tiffany's Tony-winning direction of "Once," restaged for the current tour, is a miracle of judicious rhythmic choices and deft transitions.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:10PMMonday, December 23, 2013
"Lon Chaney is just a master," says Roger Miller of The Alloy Orchestra, "and the film 'He Who Gets Slapped' has everything that he's great at."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:55AM 
