6,222 stories from The Arts Fuse
Henry Cowell's was an important, if now often forgotten, voice in 20th-century music.
Convenience Store Woman is an achievement -- a satiric look at a mind that is intent on remaining empty.
Composer Florence Price's lack of acceptance into the American canon is shameful.
A delicious, comforting gumbo of a Wiz with all the right ingredients for an upbeat, entertaining evening (or afternoon) at the theater.
The best festivals, like Disc Jam, build and deliver music-fueled experiences.
Rupert Thomson's Never Anyone But You is a quiet, expert, and inestimably engaging novel.
Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual arts, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.
That neglect, though, is our loss. The Altenberg-Lieder feature Alban Berg at his most direct and concise, as well as his most sumptuous.
Evening at the Talk House is a savage indictment of our country's acceptance of the immense, horrific violence necessary to maintain our consumer comforts.
Fall's conflict is presented with insufficient power; its domestic tragedy is not propelled along its inevitably troubling course.
Could it be that choreographer Wayne McGregor choked in the face of the Rite of Spring challenge?
Blown is a short and engrossing mystery novel that also stands as a morality play, an ethical fable that suggests that our own selves are perhaps the greatest mystery of all.
In the end, Jagged Little Pill manages to spotlight multiple modern problems while making us care about its characters.
Luchino Visconti made theatrically tinged movies driven by music, indebted to painting, sculpture, architecture, and literature"he accomplished, dare I say, a fusion of the arts.
Open Theatre Project's Gay Shorts is bold, out, and unafraid.
This tautly-directed, well-cast production is filled with contemporary medical, political, and social resonances.
While perhaps not more than the sum of its parts -- that would be hard to imagine -- the music on this tribute disc has its own vitality and stands well on its own.
"I'm happy with where I am in my career. I know what I want to do and can do it. I just enjoy it."
La Sylphide is full of magic. It might be about magic.
Recommended hashtags for the Boston Theatre Critics Association: #MeTooGiveMeTime, #MeTooNotYet
There's something Shakespearian about the grasp of Philip Roth's fiction.
Despite my complaints, Allegiance is affecting - almost frustratingly so.
Tony Zierra's film is a worthy and interesting one, but I admit to becoming worn down by the endless litany of unglamorous ways that protagonist Leon Vitali worked his butt off for the geniu…
Let the Sunshine In is French filmmaker Claire Denis's one-note ode to the power of love even when, in this case, love stinks like dead fish.
Roberta Silman's engaging and deeply felt novel is a reminder of what it means to carry a historical burden on both a personal and national level.
