1,920 stories by "Arts Fuse Editor"
No! No Annette. How unfair, the death of the fabulous Annette Funicello!
It was while watching the NCAA Men's Basketball tournament that I stumbled upon an interesting trend: non-American rock music being used in American advertising campaigns.
What Ebert was was a very hard-working, daily journalist who, as he should, watched thousands of movies and wrote about them in a very clear, concise, fairly interesting but obvious way.
"By the Way, Meet Vera Stark" suggests the dismissive attitude the public has toward African American actors, but the script doesn't go far enough to make its title character three-dimension…
Poet Mikhail Kuzmin, born in the 1870s into a family of Russian Old Believers, was a passionate exponent of gay literature in the early twentieth century.
Yves Bonnefoy's book is, fundamentally, a spiritual autobiography; yet it draws extensively on the outside world and ponders how it can be described in writing or depicted in painting.
A hedonist and humanist, admired filmmaker Ricky Leacock was curious about everyone, including the rich and famous, especially if he could show them sans their celebrity masks.
The chief glory of the Lyric Stage production: an ensemble of eight actors that agilely accents the humor dramatist Lynn Nottage utilizes to temper her examination of the darker racial and p…
The Berklee Contemporary Symphony Orchestra sought bravely to straddle the jazz and classical worlds with a little help from some star soloists.
Bianco Amato is a marvel as Anton Chekov's widow, Olga Knipper, who can turn her fake emotions on a ruble.
In the end, it is not the brilliance of his criticism or the strength of his prose for which we will remember Roger Ebert, but his humanity and his love"for film, for life, and, most of all,…
It is April in New England and for local music that means one thing, it's time to RUMBLE!.
"Henrik Nordbrandt now holds a unique place in his homeland as its most celebrated national poet, who happens to have spent most of his adult life outside Denmark."
The Slide Brothers fuse steel with gospel, Etana brings the roots back to reggae, Duke Levine steps out on his own, and much, much more this month.
Is it country? Is it rock? When it's good, is there really a difference?
It turns out that it was more than just a rumor that saxophonist Charles Lloyd spent some of the '70s playing with The Beach Boys.
Are those who merely stand and watch as guilty as those who drop the bombs, pull the triggers, or run the trains? The question is no less relevant today than more than sixty years ago.
None of these games engendered any suffering at all. They were already pre-designed for failure; a player has no chance of success. But isn't part of the pleasure of gaming the repeated fail…
What is a Judicial Review? It is a fresh approach to creating a conversational, critical space about the arts and culture. This session discusses Elizabeth Graver's new novel The End of the …
Recipe for a memorable evening at MIT's Kresge Auditorium: two of the world's great clarinetists, an inspiring conductor, a hard-working student band, and a major new piece of the clarinet r…
Director Liesl Tommy's unflinching approach gives Lorraine Hansberry's classic a surprising urgency more than half a century after the drama first played on Broadway.
The Celebrity Series of Boston offers top-notch artists and performing ensembles from around the world. With a Russian at the helm, it is no surprise that the Shostakovich Concerto would mat…
In Bruce Norris' Pulitzer prize-winning play "Clybourne Park," resentment and racism chafe at the thin veneer of polite pleasantries.
The music has no soul. Alt-J isn't "the new Radiohead." They're "the new Emerson, Lake, and Palmer."
It's March in Boston and that means lots of tourists and college kids wearing green things and claiming to be Irish. Take them by the hand and lead them to one of the following musical offer…
