6,222 stories from The Arts Fuse
Susan Sontag wrote short stories as a hobby; she saved more of her enormous intellectual energy for her novels and essays.
With this production, Penobscot Producing Artistic Director Bari Newport has raised the artistic bar for Bangor's premiere theater company.
We're not in European art film territory here.
Red Sparrow isn't great in any way, but, at two hours and twenty minutes, we do get our money's worth of old-school genre entertainment.
The BSO seems to have taken to heart complaints about its lack of programming diversity, devoting two full programs to underrepresented groups.
Jazz singer Mark Murphy was just too much for most audiences during that period; too intense, too varied, too unpredictable.
We were reminded of how difficult it is to create an evening-length's choreography without a storyline, musical structure, or a well-developed concept
It would have been wonderful to have seen either a faithful version of Threepenny Opera in German or a boldly conceived contemporary version.
It is, clearly, a crafty Beethoven remix and the ways John Adams assimilates the older composer's language into his latest style are fascinating.
This performance was far more than special and crazily beautiful -- it was extraordinary.
Indo-Pak Coalition's energized music and performance somehow manages to square the circle --  it is as engaging as it is songful and intelligent.
Kelley Donovan believes every dancer should own her movement, not just perform it.
Just about every aspect of Loveless is executed perfectly.
To my surprise, the auto union was written out of the picture from the start, as if dramatist Dominique Morisseau saw it as an embarrassment.
Kalinnikov's First Symphony is one of those neglected works well worth beating a drum for.
Skeleton Crew offers a redemptive look at a national tragedy -- the financial crisis of 2008.
Mostly, indie horror seems constrained, not by lack of funds, but by lackluster creativity and a sort of sloppy artlessness.
This Hopkins Center production will be the US premiere of Dada Masilo's much-anticipated and reimagined Giselle.
This symphony is the finest synthesis of Leonard Bernstein's considerable theatrical instincts within a concert framework, idiosyncratic and singular.
In The Humans, Stephen Karam suggest that America can be a Heaven that in a moment, might flip into Hell.
Charles Ives continues to stand, after 140-plus years, as the ultimate American Composer.
A kaleidoscopic small-band adventure led by one of the world's great clarinetists, and a superbly-played set by Ben Wendel's dynamic quintet.
Pražák Quartet's Smetana is keeper, Sir Simon Rattle's Haydn is a loser, and Lindberg's "On the Waterfront" is a knockout.
TV's The Exorcist reinvents its source material for an occult-savvy (not to mention cinema-savvy) audience.
Violinist Michael Barenboim is an exceptional young musician with a famous name who stands on his own two feet.
