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Monday, September 8, 2014

Fuse Commentary — Big Money for Artist Activists From the Robert Rauschenberg Estate by Debra Cash

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 04:48PM

Fuse Book Review: Joni Mitchell — One Side, Now by Debra Cash

The pleasures of Joni Mitchell: In Her Own Words are the pleasures of being a fly on the wall.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:52AM
Friday, August 15, 2014

Fuse Dance Review: Hat Trick — Doug Elkins at Jacob’s Pillow by Debra Cash

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 02:20PM
Friday, June 27, 2014

Fuse News: Boston’s New Puppet Map by Debra Cash

There is now an online "sonic census" of puppetry in the greater Boston area.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:15AM
Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Fuse Remembrance: Celebrating Rebecca Blunk 1953 – 2014 by Debra Cash

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 03:09PM
Monday, June 23, 2014

Fuse Dance Feature: Wonder X 2 by Debra Cash

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 08:57AM
Friday, June 20, 2014

Fuse Music Review: Rufus Wainwright’s Open Heart by Debra Cash

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 08:47AM
Friday, May 16, 2014

Fuse Dance Review: “Acis and Galatea” — You Go, Girl by Debra Cash

Mark Morris' choreography for his 18-member ensemble alternates between joyful ring-around-the-rosy and contra dance circles.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:41PM
Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Fuse News: Artist Responds to Fuse Critic’s Review — With Art by Debra Cash

This is what I call an example of a critic making an impact!

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:54PM
Monday, May 12, 2014

Fuse Dance Review: Boston Ballet’s “Pricked” — Building Blocks by Debra Cash

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 03:27PM
Saturday, May 10, 2014

Fuse Book Review: “The Democratic Surround” — Exploring the Makings of Mass Experience by Debra Cash

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 03:03PM
Thursday, May 8, 2014

Fuse Book Review: “Artists, Writers, Thinkers, Dreamers — Portraits of 50 Famous Folks & All Their Weird Stuff” by Debra Cash

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 11:28AM
Thursday, May 1, 2014

Fuse Theater Review: Hello Muddah? — “My Son The Waiter” by Debra Cash

Comic genres don't die; they just become niche markets.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:50AM
Thursday, April 17, 2014

Fuse News: Time Capsules — British Pathe Newsreels Online by Debra Cash

British Pathe's 85,000 (some sites say 90,000, but who's counting?) newsreels are now online.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:09PM
Monday, April 7, 2014

Fuse Book Review: David Grossman’s “Falling Out of Time” — It Takes A Village by Debra Cash

"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 04:34PM
Saturday, March 29, 2014

Fuse Stage Preview: See Me, Hear Me — Nalaga’at Theater Deaf-Blind Acting Ensemble by Debra Cash

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 12:52PM
Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Fuse Dance News: “Fame” and the Fairytale by Debra Cash

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 03:20PM

Fuse Music Preview: East Coast Premiere of an Opera about the Fight for Civil Rights –”Dark River” by Debra Cash

Fanny 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 09:40AM
Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Fuse Preview: Rescuing — and Reimagining — the Sarajevo Haggadah by Debra Cash

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 05:02PM
Monday, March 17, 2014

Dance Review: If the Shoe Fits — Boston Ballet’s “Cinderella” by Debra Cash

Boston Ballet is showcasing a number of its ballerinas in the title role of Cinderella.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:03AM
Friday, February 28, 2014

Fuse Dance Review: TAO Dance Theater — All Wound Up by Debra Cash

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 02:47PM
Saturday, February 8, 2014

Fuse Dance Review: Compagnie Käfig — Arbitrary Exoticism by Debra Cash

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 09:35AM
Friday, February 7, 2014

Fuse Dance News: The “Restless Creature” Takes A Rest by Debra Cash

Dancer Wendy Whelan will not be appearing under the auspices of the Celebrity Series of Boston as planned.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:05PM
Friday, January 31, 2014

Fuse News: Visionaries in Conversation by Debra Cash

Arts alert for readers in the Pioneer Valley.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:26AM
Monday, January 27, 2014

Fuse Dance Review: PERFORMANCE — A Parade of Passersby by Debra Cash

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 08:14PM
Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Fuse Music Review: Emmanuel Music’s “A Little Night Music” — An Uneven Evening by Debra Cash

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 08:35AM
Sunday, January 12, 2014

Fuse Theater Review: The Musical “Once” — Music as Healing and Community by Debra Cash

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 05:10PM
Monday, December 23, 2013

Fuse Film Preview: Sheer Silent Film Magic — “He Who Gets Slapped” and The Alloy Orchestra by Debra Cash

"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
Sunday, December 15, 2013

Fuse News Comment: Verdi vs. the Synthesized Xylophones by Debra Cash

All was well -- at moments, thrilling -- until the credits rolled. Then the Regal did what it always did: it launched its terrible muzak.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:26PM
Thursday, December 12, 2013

Fuse News: Art Works — The News from the NEA by Debra Cash

Observers have often commented that NEA money goes disproportionately to large cultural institutions, and that continues to be true, but those investments are dispersed among disciplines and…

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:46PM

Fuse Dance Remembrance: The Passing of a Denishawn Dancer by Debra Cash

Mona Rice, who performed with Denishawn and who founded the dance department at the Cushing Academy as well as her own studio in Ashburnham, MA, died in Boston on November 26 at the age of 8…

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:57PM

All that Chat

2023-2024 BROADWAY SEASON
May 30, 2023: Grey House - Lyceum Theatre
Jun 26, 2023: Just For Us - Hudson Theatre
Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
Apr 14, 2024: Lempicka - Longacre Theatre
Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
Apr 18, 2024: Suffs - Music Box Theatre
Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
Jun 10, 2024: The Drama Desk Awards