121 stories by "Debra Cash"
The Fuse doesn't usually publicize auditions, but it's news that Debbie Allen is swinging through Boston this week seeking young dancers between the ages of seven and 22.
Fanny Lou Hamer's life and the political struggle that gave us the Voting Rights Act is the basis of Mary Watkins' two-act opera.
It was not the first time the Sarajevo Haggadah had benefited from Muslim protection: during the Nazi occupation, another librarian had spirited the Hebrew manuscript out of danger and hidde…
Boston Ballet is showcasing a number of its ballerinas in the title role of Cinderella.
If calculating pi to a far-off-integer isn't for you, TAO Dance Theater's baffling kinetic exploits may seem less like an incredible journey than a trudge to a dead end.
I get why Compagnie Käfig's Correria/Agwa has been booked onto stages in 15 countries and counting. But the troupe's polished athleticism comes at the sacrifice of hip hop dance's precious …
Dancer Wendy Whelan will not be appearing under the auspices of the Celebrity Series of Boston as planned.
Arts alert for readers in the Pioneer Valley.
No amount of postmodern theory can paper over the fact that a half-baked cake, even one made with tasty ingredients, fails to satisfy.
With a Stephen Sondheim show, it's all in the casting, and Emmanuel Music's casting was a mixed bag.
John Tiffany's Tony-winning direction of "Once," restaged for the current tour, is a miracle of judicious rhythmic choices and deft transitions.
"Lon Chaney is just a master," says Roger Miller of The Alloy Orchestra, "and the film 'He Who Gets Slapped' has everything that he's great at."
All was well -- at moments, thrilling -- until the credits rolled. Then the Regal did what it always did: it launched its terrible muzak.
Observers have often commented that NEA money goes disproportionately to large cultural institutions, and that continues to be true, but those investments are dispersed among disciplines and…
Mona Rice, who performed with Denishawn and who founded the dance department at the Cushing Academy as well as her own studio in Ashburnham, MA, died in Boston on November 26 at the age of 8…
This, my friends, is what 80 looks like.
Red Grooms specializes in high art cartooning with a nod to ideas about time, personality and the formation of coteries that bear close investigation, or as curator Lisa Hodermarsky's notes,…
Director Jon M. Chu enlisted songwriter/performer Todrick Hall and choreographers Jamal Sims and Christopher Scott to remix the in-flight safety lecture.
An evening of risk that explores the edges of physical and emotional risk in dances scored to everything from Kurt Weill to a kitchen table conversation.
Mother Nature likes pianos.
To take a page from Tolstoy, hunger is hunger but each hungry person experiences it in his or her own way. That insight is at the heart of the remarkable, socially engaged toy theatre produc…
Moving Target has announced a series of Saturday afternoon workshops featuring a remarkable series of guest teachers at Cambridge's Green Street Studios.
Fuse Dance Critic Debra Cash on what's coming up in dance this week.
Yoko Ono has always been the kind of artist more interested in getting into your head than convincing you to occupy hers.
In four jam-packed rooms, in paper, acetate, and select video sequences, Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs: The Creation of a Classic deconstructs the film's artistic and technical achievement.
