6,222 stories from The Arts Fuse
John Heginbotham may be making modern dance but he gives us the gift of classicism: discovery within form.
Christopher Hollyday's Telepathy is a keeper, Chris Pasin's Ornettiquette is an excellent outing, Jake Ehrenreich's A Treasury of Jewish Christmas Songs is uneven, and for some long winter n…
The more we hear about Jane Fonda's homilies about needing to be "whole" and "self-actualize" the more her personal journey sounds more like a succession of carefully calculated branding exe…
Yes, the first-ever recording of a opera that is as wonderful as Berlioz and Wagner said it is.
Lonnie Holley's music on MITHÂ is the sound of a choir of better angels whose multi-layered voice is hard on the outside and soft on the inside, like so much Alabama clay.
"I like implication very much; there's a fiction of implication that I think I've championed over the fiction of explication."
One of the distinguishing characteristics of this set is the smart, energetic, and ever-changing, relationship between bass and drums.
Asked what the experience was like to go back and revisit his earlier recordings, Alan Parsons explained, "It's actually very pleasurable, like stepping back in a time machine."
British historian Adam Zamoyski has drawn a portrait of Napoleon that is neither flattering nor diminishing.
Kamasi Washington's music connected viscerally with a Royale audience that was packed with young people -- or at least way younger than those normally seen at a jazz concert.
Hype Man is a complex and challenging treatment of race relations in the U.S.-- indispensable viewing in these days of Trump.
In this album, saxophonist Ethan Helm has achieved a very personal balance between highly composed sections and solos rooted in harmony and free playing.
The moral of Jen Silverman's yarn is straightforward enough: we are in a country where self-transformation has become an end in itself, re-invention a default response to omnipresent banalit…
Journalist Ian Nathan presents Peter Jackson's trials in bringing Tolkien's books to film as if he was writing a spy thriller.
The volume is devoted to print ads and event flyers for local eateries, concert venues, theaters, stores, and community events that were printed in the '60s, '70s and '80s.
In Washington Black novelist Esi Edugyan has defied the cliché of the escaped slave discovering freedom.
Aside from his seemingly effortless technique, Roustem Saïtkoulov struck me as a poet of the piano, for whom music seems (to be) his first language.
The film captures everything I love about Queen -- the outrageousness, the audacity, the bigness of it all.
This is a sublime little film " an elegantly cross-stitched portrait of an all-American family fracturing under the weight of broken dreams and false promises.
Now George Soros is mostly known as favored target of the right, more onerous to it, it seems, than even " Lock Her Up! " Hillary Clinton.
Hub Theatre Company's production bursts with energy, staged with a clear-minded sense of movement and a hand-made quality that generates ample charm and whimsy.
Mother Butterfly's script shows genuine promise, but the Storm Warnings Repertory Theatre's premiere production falls short.
An Arts Fuse regular feature returns (temporarily): The Arts on Stamps of the World.
Maniac is mind-bending entertainment that's also an invitation to muse on infinite possibilities.
Why this team up? Other than that both Luciana Souza and the Yellowjackets have been nominated for multiple Grammys?
