1,920 stories by "Arts Fuse Editor"
Instead of painting the vibrant and colorful scene which is New Orleans, author Matt Miller supplies dry exposition about each event via a blow-by-blow chronological time line.
"The Admirable Crichton" premiered in 1902, but the Peterborough Players bring this comedy about class division off admirably -- as classy theater, not anthropology.
Wadada Leo Smith's album contains avant-garde music with a human face, intimate and appealing and beautifully played by a band of virtuosos.
For anyone interested in classical music, "Motherless Child" is a novel to be savored. And there is no doubt that Zeitlin has gotten those details right. She is the widow of the great violin…
Olympia Dukakis' Prospera is no tough feminist deity commanding a tiny kingdom. She is at her best when she plays the character as a feisty, down-to-earth mother who wants the best for her d…
When I first learned of the shooting in Aurora, I immediately thought, "Wonder how long it'll take until someone blames the movie."
August ushers in some Lo-fi indie here in New England. Sebadoh and HR from Bad Brains are the well-knowns, but homegrown musicians Dan Blakeslee and School for Robots show us that minimalist…
According to former WGBH Jazz DJ Steve Schwartz, "In retrospect, the writing was on the wall. About a year and a half ago, our shows were cut by an hour; before that, we were told we could n…
Patrick Barlow's script and Chuck Morey's direction of the Peterborough Players production turn "The 39 Steps" into a madcap, Marx-Brothers-style of zaniness barreling along at farce-speed u…
There's no such thing as a free lunch, but in Boston this summer (and throughout the year) free concerts are as easy to find as upset fans at Fenway Park.
By using water as a lens to explore Ansel Adams's artistry, this exhibition makes his fascination with motion and time crystal clear.
Irving Berlin fans will be pleased to see such items as the complete Jerome Kern letter, (written in 1925!) in which Kern writes: "Irving Berlin has no place in American music. HE IS AMERICA…
Reading "The Storytelling Animal" is akin to listening to a series of terrific humanities lectures given by a polymath professor with a P.T. Barnum streak.
The issues raised by Mike Daisey's infraction, his fall from grace, and now his return, are many, but chief among them is the privilege of illusion, the birth-right of the artist.
Poet Mel Kenne, like a desert ascetic, has pared away everything that is not essential -" no words have been wasted in the making of this collection.
Avi Avital, a young virtuoso determined to expand the repertoire, is the first mandolinist ever to be signed to a contract with Deutsche Grammophone. His recording of Bach for the label is a…
You leave the matrimonial musical "I Do! I Do!" humming its banalities.
Norman Manea's compelling novel "The Lair" tracks the ambiguities, contradictions, and confusions of the exile's psyche as he struggles to find footing in surroundings that are often unintel…
None of the Boston Dance Made to Order submissions dodged dance-on-camera cliches. There was a lot random dancing outdoors, body parts -- especially hands and feet -- shot in close-up, and r…
Book product, much like food product, is manufactured "- from its very inception, designed to make money by shameless pandering to mainstream taste.
You are hardly aware of the historical facts. Kate Grenville internalizes them so completely in her novel there is not a sentence that "stinks of history," as a friend of mine once said abou…
With the first official heat wave behind us, summer is now in full swing and there is a ton happening musically in New England. This month local music shows off its diversity.
British playwright Alan Ayckbourn does not build gag machines that spit out one-liners. He creates finely etched characters whose humor is rooted in their befuddled behavior and personalitie…
A critically acclaimed player in the New York avant-garde scene, Theo Bleckmann is clearly a Kate Bush connoisseur, and his commentary on her work was as compelling as the performances
Auld Lang Syne is the kind of poorly made play that withholds important and obvious elements of development in order to score artificial dramatic points late in the action.
