Fuse Book Review: "The Wake" " When England Stopped Being English
More than a mere novel, The Wake is really a medieval epic poem to an English way of life that would be erased forever.
More than a mere novel, The Wake is really a medieval epic poem to an English way of life that would be erased forever.
A friendly energy runs through the heart of The Road to Where, a tangible and inviting companionship.
Lady Macbeth and Her Lover is a determinedly somber play that tries to attain the feel of classic tragedy.
The artist knows that beauty, and even the sublime, on their own terms are not enough to cut it in the competitive field of contemporary art.
A few quibbles aside, the musical Waitress plays and sounds like it's close to ready for the Broadway big time.
The final impression left by The Flick is one of exhilaration.
It was rather shocking to see Gregg Allman in such good shape this week: He looked as fit and trim as he has in decades.
Conventional wisdom says that audiences will mutiny if you don't give 'em all the hits, but this crowd danced all the way through Santana's eclectic setlist.
A lazy night of Shakespearean mayhem in New York's Riverside Park.
Current Mayor Marty Walsh has justifiably called for better design for Boston's new structures.
His Girl Friday is a stirring celebration of the power of journalism that not only amuses but manages to be troubling as well.
The End of the Tour don't remain a hall of mirrors but become a bridge that conveys its subject's honest, painful humanity.
While Ernie Smith's rich baritone and playful lyrics are too often absent from venues and festivals, but he's found a New England champion in the Rhode Island band Soul Shot.
Neurosis is among the pioneers of the so-called post-metal sound, which knots the heavy and the heady into myriad patterns.
In this entertaining satire of empire, Christian Kracht makes use of a nihilistic magic realism, without the sweetness one normally associates with that mode.
Dark Places fumbles and stumbles as it tries, but fails, to follow all of the possible solutions to the whodunit.
Few people are familiar with the achievement of nineteenth century African-American Shakespearean actor Ira Aldridge.
We will always need critics to show us how literature works by revering it rather than interrogating it as if it had committed a crime.
The Bush Tetras -- who've been on-off reunited since 1995, but haven't hit Boston in nearly two decades -- headline at the Sinclair this Saturday.
One of Unknown Soldier's powerful choices is that its central characters are not your standard young lovers.
Even if you manage to overlook the objectionable ethics of the film, The Stanford Prison Experiment simply doesn't work as a gripping drama.
Perhaps there's no way to reproduce the subtlety of this work in the theater today. Our stages are so materialistic, so technological. .
This astutely curated exhibit explores the presence of architecture in contemporary sculpture.
The relationship between a now-single mother and her bright, troubled daughter makes for a convincing, pertinent, and deeply funny play.
The play's made up of domestic confrontations in which dramatist Suzanne Heathcote at times moves past moments of high tension at high speed.