1,920 stories by "Arts Fuse Editor"
Translator George Kalogeris's modernizing does what it should: It brings the poems into the thought-world where modern readers live.
As "Lincoln"'s end credits roll, you feel vaguely dissatisfied and disappointed that the film never achieves the emotional greatness that it might have in the hands of a different director.
As a performer, Lorraine Chapman has few peers in the area. Her body has been forged exquisitely in the ballet studio, and further honed by her early professional career as a ballet dancer.
The 35th anniversary concert proved that Coltrane's music and memory continue to strongly hold sway in the hearts and souls of musicians and audiences alike.
Local news outlets have already begun to frame Aerosmith's impromptu concert as a homecoming of sorts for the "Bad Boys of Boston." But is this epithet deserved?
"Guys and Dolls" is like a baseball team with a five-run lead in the ninth. It's yours to lose. If you put together a talented, versatile cast with this material, you almost certainly will p…
Ingeborg Bachmann wanted freedom for them both. She says in her letter, "I am free and I am lost in this freedom." Dominique Frot is a brave actress. She presents the poet's freedom in her b…
November starts off with efforts to recover from Hurricane Sandy. Once the power comes back, hit the town for some tunes and some strong adult beverages to ease the pain of completing the in…
Jazz musician Don Byron is nothing if not eclectic, but his own playing is always penetrating, challenging, energizing, and his compositions vehicles for both intense exploration and tendern…
"Cloud Atlas" is irresistible, a visual and sensory marvel with a winning mix of charm and humor to offset the darkest violence and mayhem within the sobering tale.
Chick Corea and Gary Burton were celebrating their recent disc, "Hot House," which they said was meant to recall the sixties, when the two were starting their careers. But the sixties were n…
ROUND: Cambridge is a testament to what can be accomplished using smart phones, GPS coordinates and a Google map.
What is a Judicial Review? It is a fresh approach to creating a conversational, critical space about the arts and culture. This is our ninth session, a discussion about the New Repertory The…
The 1930s urban update of "Cinderella" proffers some clumsiness, but the dancing by the expert members of the Mariinsky Ballet is a treat.
One answer to the question of "Why two plays in verse?" might be that Denis Johnson is a writer relentlessly in pursuit of new forms, and new formal challenges"a literary daredevil always lo…
When you have a spare twenty minutes, grab some headphones and take your laptop to a dark corner to watch and listen to "Ramada Inn." You will need the extra three or four minutes to compose…
Yes, Ben Affleck took some liberties in "Argo" for the sake of the dramatic arc and a kickass, intense finale. But mostly, the story is so bizarre that it hardly needed enhancement.
The evening's material fit quite snugly into the ' 70s fusion model. It was high-energy, electric, rock inflected, and clearly written as a challenge to its virtuoso players.
THE ART OF ROBERT FROST helped me get closer to the poems and in doing so helped me get closer to the poet.
For performers and audience members alike the Shalin Liu setting is as much a part of the experience as the music. It has quickly transformed the intimate hall into a destination location fo…
Intimacy has been the key note of bossa nova performance ever since the initial murmurings of Joao and Astrud Gilberto, and singer Eliane Elias can whisper with the best of them.
Grappling with one's identity -- complicated by the relationships between tradition and modernism, cultural history and the process of assimilation -- is central to most of Sherman Alexie's …
"It's Fine By Me" is the story of so many lost boys in literature, who run, who rebel, who are crushed, or luckily find their way.
The local Halloween tradition returns in which local bands play as one of their favorite, more mainstream bands.
"The Master" is not easily pigeon-holed as a film but one can argue that it is, at its core, a brilliant anti-war movie.
