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There are words of wisdom for artists here: they offer a simultaneously nauseating and heartening view of the trade for those actively practicing.
The Peculiar Patriot may say it is about making us feel the human price of mass incarceration in America, but there is more than a little True Romance in the mix.
What the box set makes adamantly, abundantly clear is how egalitarian Joe Strummer's musical vision truly was. If you don't already know his solo work, you should.
Places Please! looks at the backstage life and trauma of performers.
The latest big band album from Mark Masters beautifully displays his eclectic tastes and deep knowledge of jazz history.
Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.
Frankenstein is a gripping amalgamation of the elemental and the technological.
What is distinctive about Jane Gillooly's superb documentary is its patient unfolding of the history of discrimination in a specific area.
Life Is Strange 2 makes no secret about its sympathy for Mexican-Americans in the era of Trump.
These are not stodgy actresses, but a diverse of group of women proffering salty temperaments, glowing façades, and the exquisite articulation that reflects decades on the stage.
Lorelei Ensemble's latest recording is awe-inspiring.
The Clovehitch Killer is a creepy little movie about a creepy little idea, the parasitic kind that worms through the ear canal and eats away at brain matter.
In his exhilarating translation of Pan Tadeusz, translator Bill Johnston captures Adam Mickiewicz's wild fluctuations of register and brilliant associative riffs.
Though Al Stewart can't hit the high notes like he used to, his distinctive, crisp voice is still strong and melodic at 72.
Every performance of opera should leave an audience so exhilarated.
Piercing choreographs its weirdness early and often.
Claire Tomalin narrates her story with a prototypically English stiff upper lip, and a reticence about the personal.
The strength of The Mars Room is its compelling vision of the stultifying and claustrophobic underworld of women in prison.
Ilan Stavans' latest book is an engrossing potpourri of this thinker's continuing thoughts about language, culture, and the self.
The first book on the largest mass killing of gays and lesbians in the United States until the 2016 massacre at Pulse.
Taylor Mac and Pirandello share the same goal: reveal the deadening vacuity at the heart of bourgeois society and the male ego.
Most of the time, Actors' Shakespeare Project's production of Macbeth is compelling.
JoAnn Falletta's recording of Schreker's orchestral works is fantastic; Manfred Honeck and his Pittsburgh Symphony make Beethoven's Eroica Symphony shocking again, and Baiba Skride proves a …
This is a first-rate production of a true American classic.
Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.
