1,920 stories by "Arts Fuse Editor"
WGBH is exploring an interesting issue -- how little can you invest in arts coverage and still have the chutzpah to ask for money from supporters who mistake crumbs for a loaf?
At Land's Edge is a creepy and wonderful piece of art that will more than likely inspire a mind-altering live experience.
One feels when reading this anthology of Latin American poetry that editor Ilan Stavans tucks each poet he features into a folder, but that this categorization, while limiting, also encourag…
Audrey Ryan does not mince words when it comes to what she thinks of "hipster posers," her generation of the "apathetic age," armchair critics, and stalker fans. Ryan performs Saturday, June…
Imitation and musical thievery is pretty standard in the current world of mainstream music, but when The Machine took the stage last night at the Blue Ocean Music Hall in Salisbury, MA to pe…
When the musical whirlwind came to an end the crowd responded with a standing ovation, an enthusiastic testament to the power of this sweat-soaked night of edgy jazz guitar.
In The Life of an Unknown Man Andreï Makine creates a work of simple elegance that at its core explores the relationship of the past to the present, of truth to art, and of truth to life.
Given the flood of publications on early modern natural history over the last two decades, the detailed and strikingly illustrated Picturing the Book of Nature represents a herculean underta…
May 27th marked what would have been the one-hundredth anniversary of writer John Cheever's birth. June 18th marks the thirtieth anniversary of his death.
Into the Garden with Charles reads like a great love letter: beautifully written, full of feeling, a document of an intimate connection that never lost its wonder for the author.
If you have a taste for something different that also has some depth and heft, then guitarist/composer Mary Halvorson's new album may be just what you're looking for.
An astonishing amount of thinking and creativity has shaped the Boston Choral Ensemble concert.
The month of May was a tough time for rock music in New England. With the impending death of WFNX and presumably local music radio show Boston Accents, there is now one less exposure avenue …
Of the major 20th-century writers in English, Patrick White stands with the best, partly because he refused to repeat himself, and partly because he refuses to tell you everything, so that w…
Judging by the trailer for The Great Gatsby, it looks as if director Baz Luhrman's habitual excess will overwhelm the lyrical beauty and subtle power of F. Scott Fitzgerald's prose.
The poetry of Palestinian author Ghassan Zaqtan dwells in the space between life and death, memory and erasure, respite and continuous travel.
As sorry as I was to lose Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes last week, I was nonetheless deeply pleased that he reached the age of 83. I almost killed him when he was 37.
Beau Jest Moving Theatre has returned to the early, one-act version of Williams' script, and created a sometimes pleasant, sometimes nightmarish dreamscape.
Mark Morris, no longer dancing, joined his company for the curtain call. He's beloved here, a part of the contemporary dance scene in Boston over the decades as a performer, a choreographer …
This family's twelve-year-old daughter found Little Shop of Horrors to be funny, silly, and wholly enjoyable, further cementing her desire to be onstage as much and as often as possible in t…
Woody Sez is a thoroughly enjoyable and effectively assembled presentation of Woody Guthrie's life and music.
Sound of My Voice has a lot twists and turns, much charm, and credible suspense. Have I yielded to the cult of Brit Marling? I was always a sucker for pretty face, and a good yarn.
To his credit, Boston Ballet's artistic director Mikko Nissinen is looking far and wide for ways to expand the company's repertory.
If you're into pastry, Cupcake is for you. But if you expect something more filling, then I'm afraid you'll have to wait for this creative team's next baking session.
Alessandro Baricco's novella Silk, filled with inchoate erotic longings for which there is no explanation, became an international bestseller. Emmaus, his latest book in translation, also co…
