Monday, 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 09:55AMSunday, December 15, 2013
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 07:26PMThursday, December 12, 2013
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 04:46PMMona 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 01:57PMWednesday, November 13, 2013
This, my friends, is what 80 looks like.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:02AMSunday, November 10, 2013
Red Grooms specializes in high art cartooning with a nod to ideas about time, personality and the formation of coteries that bear close investigation, or as curator Lisa Hodermarsky's notes,…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:59AMThursday, October 31, 2013
Director Jon M. Chu enlisted songwriter/performer Todrick Hall and choreographers Jamal Sims and Christopher Scott to remix the in-flight safety lecture.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:06PMTuesday, October 22, 2013
An evening of risk that explores the edges of physical and emotional risk in dances scored to everything from Kurt Weill to a kitchen table conversation.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:58AMFriday, October 4, 2013
Sunday, September 29, 2013
To take a page from Tolstoy, hunger is hunger but each hungry person experiences it in his or her own way. That insight is at the heart of the remarkable, socially engaged toy theatre produc…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:13PMThursday, September 12, 2013
Moving Target has announced a series of Saturday afternoon workshops featuring a remarkable series of guest teachers at Cambridge's Green Street Studios.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:08PMTuesday, September 10, 2013
Fuse Dance Critic Debra Cash on what's coming up in dance this week.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:40PMWednesday, August 21, 2013
Yoko Ono has always been the kind of artist more interested in getting into your head than convincing you to occupy hers.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:01PMSunday, August 18, 2013
In four jam-packed rooms, in paper, acetate, and select video sequences, Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs: The Creation of a Classic deconstructs the film's artistic and technical achievement.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:51AMSunday, July 28, 2013
This is Michelle Dorrance’s break out year, or perhaps more accurately the year people outside the intimate tap community got to know her by sight and reputation.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:32PMWednesday, July 17, 2013
On Friday, three experimental artists offer a sneak peek at their work together to date, with the addition to excepts from more finished pieces.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:47AMTuesday, July 16, 2013
Art helps keep the horrors in sight, so if you're in the Berkshires July 16 through 27, it will be well worth the trip to visit the Lenox Public Library and stand witness to Robin Berson's m…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:58AMFriday, July 12, 2013
Instability is key to Brian Brooks' choreographic agenda. Some of the dancers crouch on their hands and feet and are transformed into slow-moving mounts for the dancers balancing on their ba…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:33PMFriday, June 21, 2013
What Ain Gordon's play demonstrates is that even when records are indecipherable and incomplete, we still have the right, and perhaps the responsibility, to imagine what happened.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:45AMThursday, June 20, 2013
"We're in this really great place now where the music [klezmer] can sound fairly traditional in style but at the same time we can do more in-depth arrangements."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:16AMFriday, June 14, 2013
Theatre buffs who delight in miniaturization will want to reserve seats for events at the Puppet Showplace in Brookline Village.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:43AMFriday, May 31, 2013
This week, Devon Carney was named Artistic Director of Kansas City Ballet.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:00AMWhile I believe that merely publishing these days is an act of entrepreneurial legerdemain, I direct you to a pair of Canadian poets who have gone one step beyond.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:38AMSaturday, May 18, 2013
The influence of two centuries of dandies on fashion -- and the artful, strategic, ready-for-the-paparazzi self-presentation at the heart of modern celebrity -- is on wide-ranging and colorf…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:00PMWednesday, May 15, 2013
Yes, there is dance in New England this summer, but those who love motion may need to embark on a little themselves to journey further afield to watch it. The trip, I can assure you, will be…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:40AMWednesday, May 8, 2013
"A Constellation of Vital Phenomena" is spectacular.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:13PMFriday, May 3, 2013
In George Balanchine's Serenade and Symphony in C and in Wayne McGregor's Chroma, architecture comes to the fore, but not exactly conveying the message that company director Mikko Nissinen s…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:39PMWednesday, May 1, 2013
Simultaneously storyteller and player, ancient character and modern respondent, Denis O'Hare's performance of "An Iliad" elicits the kind of respect automatically granted this genre of deman…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:22PMMonday, April 29, 2013
Don't be late for a very important date when the Coolidge Corner Theatre hosts a Sunday morning, high-def broadcast of the Royal Ballet's production of Christopher Wheeldon's celebrated "Ali…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:52PMWednesday, April 24, 2013
In a modest tweak of Dorothy Fields' lyrics to the famous Jerome Kern song, this weekend will be Boston's chance, via the Design Museum Boston, to sit yourself down, dust yourself off, and s…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:17AMTuesday, April 23, 2013
It's official. The 2013 jobs report of an organization called CareerCast rated "newspaper reporter" as the worst job in America.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:06PM 
