Amanda Seyfried gives a sensitive performance as Linda Lovelace; Peter Sarsgaard is chilling as Chuck Traynor, the abusive husband who saw her as sex-object and potential money-making machin…
This entertaining and provocative work, made in 1981 by the now 85-year-old director, fits into his oeuvre as a complement to his best known movie among American art-film fans, 1974's Célin…
The current revival of Laughing Stock, directed again by the playwright, has softer edges than I remember in the earlier one, played with fluidity rather than crackle.
Nourishments is an emphatic musical statement from a seasoned bandleader, returning to the front of a traditional combo
"Reading Ḥayy Ibn-YaqẓÄn" is a mesmerizing study that will enchant anyone interested in interdisciplinary, cross-cultural explorations of the history of science that transform …
Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, theater, and film that's coming up this week.
The latest LP from the dream pop band Candy Claws turns out to be its most profound and impressive statement to date.
I am probably the last person anyone would see as a hip hop fan, but I walked out of the theater with a new appreciation for the music and the satisfaction of experiencing an old-fashioned …
With its latest LP, Gogol Bordello offers some of the most nuanced songwriting of its career, which now spans well over a decade.
Rogue Burlesque will be performing an unfiltered homage to our fixation with nerd culture, from "Weird Al" Yankovic and Superman to Edgar Allan Poe.
The name of the band itself comes from a tune by the most "classical" of all jazz bands, the Modern Jazz Quartet.
Call it dueling futures. Because the battle for the soul of the science fiction and fantasy community is about nothing less, and even if we in the mystery community never considered the impa…
Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, theater, visual arts, and film that's coming up this week.
"North Shore Fish" introduces, but then glosses over, the potent issues of working class women struggling to support their families in dead-end factory jobs while their fisherman husbands re…
The Peterborough Players have put together a "Seagull" that floats elegantly on nineteenth-century Russian and twenty-first-century American wings, simultaneously bright and dark.
With "Slow Focus," the duo steps away from the variety and lushness of their previous LPs in order to put together an alluringly bleak listening experience.
But Mr. Ho's Brian O'Neill had another idea. What if he took the very inauthenticity of the original music as a motive for putting together things that were never meant to go together origi…
This attractive, inexpensive box set dedicated to Claudio Abbado contains a rich gathering of lucid, colorful recordings, among the most accomplished modern performances of symphonies that …
Director Refn's craftsmanship isn't in doubt here, just whether this deadening story was worth all the effort.
This production of "Pygmalion" is also a case study in how an accomplished director "- former Huntington Theatre Company director Nicholas Martin " weaves every part of his team into a seaml…
The Williamstown Theatre Festival production of G.B. Shaw's 100-year-old classic, "Pygmalion" " which only plays nine more performances " delivers an evening of superb theater on all levels.
Miss Tess and the Talkbacks -- the group will be at MA's Green River Festival on Saturday. Catch them if you can.
Here's a band I've been listening to for more than a decade, whose music has always had the power to absolutely level me, and it never even occurred to me that I knew next to nothing about t…
Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, theater, and film that's coming up this week.
Gustav Mahler's 3rd Symphony as performed on the opening weekend at Tanglewood by the Boston Symphony and choruses under the direction of Rafael Frubeck De Burgos was a triumph of both inter…