Pacific Overtures offers a history lesson -- but it is an entertaining, moving, thought-provoking, and timely one. The post Theater Review: “Pacific Overtures” — A Civilization on the …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:12AMMagos Herrera teamed up with the Brooklyn Rider string quartet to create a collection of music that makes its case for life, love, and liberation through its sheer beauty. The post Jazz Albu…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:48PMWhy this team up? Other than that both Luciana Souza and the Yellowjackets have been nominated for multiple Grammys?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:24AMThe SpeakEasy Stage production is intimate and emotionally satisfying, highlighting the musical’s strengths -- its sharply witty book, memorable songs, and heartbreaking characters.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:12AMWith this album, Luciana Souza has created her own indelible “book,” of songs that ache and celebrate, muse and regret, dream and mourn.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:18AMA delicious, comforting gumbo of a Wiz with all the right ingredients for an upbeat, entertaining evening (or afternoon) at the theater.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:04PMIn the end, Jagged Little Pill manages to spotlight multiple modern problems while making us care about its characters.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:24PMKate McGarry’s latest release is a gorgeous seminar on the many facets of love. Kate McGarry, Keith Ganz, Gary Versace, The Subject Tonight Is Love (Binxtown Records) By Evelyn Rosenthal T…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:25PMRoad Show is unlikely to top anyone’s list of Sondheim favorites, it’s an often entertaining take on a quintessentially American story.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:41AMToninho Horta’s musical signature is one of the most distinctive, with complex harmonies, subtle but masterful guitar work, and gentle, plaintive vocals outlining indelible melodies.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:54AM“Music is to be shared, no matter what genre it is.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:24PMThe more we learn about Thomas' characters and their lives, the more we like them and root for them.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:48PMThe cherry on top of this terrific production is its stunning technical design, from lighting and sets to sound, projection, and costumes.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:54AMDirector Paul Daigneault and SpeakEasy Stage have a hit on their hands
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:43AMSondheim on Sondheim is an entertaining, moving, hilarious mixture of reminiscences and stories about Sondheim's life and a well-chosen sampler of musical numbers from 19 of his shows.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:37AMChilds’s aim was to reimagine Nyro’s music. “I took what the songs meant to me and heightened that, illustrated it more, through the lens of my experience.”
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:39PMWhen she composes a song, she said, it’s her guitar, rather than her voice, that “chooses the key. The guitar is the boss.”
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:08PMIconic second-generation bossa nova composer, singer, and guitarist Joyce Moreno's multiday residency at Berklee will be capped tonight by a concert featuring her music.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:43PMWhat comes through clearly in Beautiful is the joy Carole King and the other writers took in putting together the songs that captured our hearts.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:13AMThe Huntington Theatre Company's magnificent production of Stephen Sondheim's masterpiece A Little Night Music is as good as it gets.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:16AMI’ve never seen Kurt Elling when he wasn’t in fine voice, and this show was no exception.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:21PMThe Lyric Stage Company's entertaining production of this Tony-winner for best musical, book, and score hits most of the right noirish notes.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:53PMLeigh Barrett and her collaborators sing and act beautifully, and they are obviously having a great deal of fun performing Richard Maltby Jr. and David Shire’s heartfelt songs about the tr…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:56AMTo darken a story that already hinges on rape, murder, and cannibalism takes some doing, but the edgy Lyric Stage production pulls it off.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:35PM“Magic” reflects the Mendes touch—more than 50 years of expert piano, arranging, and production chops, and a genius for choosing the right collaborators.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:03PMThe Lyric Stage Company’s thoroughly enjoyable production more than does "Into the Woods," Stephen Sondheim's un-Disneyfied version of fairy tales, justice.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:20AM"Music just comes, you know? You’re harvesting potatoes, and something happens and you have to put it immediately on paper.”
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:00PMThe singing in the SpeakEasy Stage Company production is strong throughout; it’s easy to get caught up in the sheer pleasure of such a variety of voices.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:52AM“I like singing live; I try to sing well live, I try to prepare myself for the audience, for that room. And I care a great deal about singing live, because I think that’s the experience …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:24PMMary Zimmerman’s Jungle Book may not have the same kind of compelling narrative and emotional depth as her Bernstein/Voltaire tour de force, but there’s plenty of magic in this Disney/Ki…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:13AMLike the great immigrant musicals, "In the Heights" touches on the tension between old and new cultures and generations, finding home, families and their expectations.
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