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Fuse Theater Interview: Swiss Playwright Jérôme Richer on Questioning “The Real Meaning of Words”
“Everybody has the power to change the world because we’re a part of it. Even if it’s a really small change, it needs to be done. Writing is my pebble in this path.” – Jérôme Richer
Fuse Book Interview: JFK, Conservative?
In his book, Ira Stoll argues that John F. Kennedy was, “by the standards of both his time and our own, a conservative.”
Fuse Commentary: Boston Symphony Orchestra Season 2014-15 — A Jolt of Energy and Stability
Most of the programs during BSO conductor Andris Nelsons’ ten subscription weeks look fresh and, if not outright adventurous, on paper they at least look more exciting than not.
Fuse Concert Review: Jack DeJohnette’s Spring Quartet — Creative Flexibility Times Four
The point of the Spring Quartet, one assumes, is to showcase its four multi-talented members, particularly their talents as composers.
Fuse Theater Review: “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” — Too Much Clutter, Too Little Poetry
All the prancing about onstage with planks of wood, actors climbing into eight-foot large puppet skeletons, is marvelous to behold, but it makes for an uneven, confusing production.
Fuse Concert Review: Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony Orchestra Perform a Scorching “Salome”
If “Salome” was a harbinger for what’s to come, we may be on the cusp of a golden era, indeed.
Fuse Film Review: The Grand Budapest Hotel — A Deliriously Eccentric Adventure Story
Director Wes Anderson’s “The Grand Budapest Hotel” presents a frenzied feast of lavish and preposterous set pieces, performances, and tall tales.
Fuse Views: This is What We Look Like — On “Selfies” and Self-Image
Sometimes using the Twitter handle #itsokKimNovak, at other times just linking to Laura Lipmann’s Facebook page, women – primarily writers and our friends – have started posting our own “raw” photos.
In Brief
- Fuse Views: Remembering a Preserver of Memory
Jiri Fiedler’s was a life of quiet heroism dedicated to the indispensable task of keeping the past alive.
- Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week
Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, dance, film and theater that’s coming up this week.
- Fuse Views: This is What We Look Like — On “Selfies” and Self-Image
Sometimes using the Twitter handle #itsokKimNovak, at other times just linking to Laura Lipmann’s Facebook page, women – primarily writers and our friends – have started posting our own “raw” photos.
- Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week
Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, dance, film, and theater that’s coming up this week.
Music
Fuse Commentary: Boston Symphony Orchestra Season 2014-15 — A Jolt of Energy and Stability
Most of the programs during BSO conductor Andris Nelsons’ ten subscription weeks look fresh and, if not outright adventurous, on paper they at least look more exciting than not.
Theater
Fuse Theater Interview: Swiss Playwright Jérôme Richer on Questioning “The Real Meaning of Words”
“Everybody has the power to change the world because we’re a part of it. Even if it’s a really small change, it needs to be done. Writing is my pebble in this path.” – Jérôme Richer
Film
Fuse Film Review: The Grand Budapest Hotel — A Deliriously Eccentric Adventure Story
Director Wes Anderson’s “The Grand Budapest Hotel” presents a frenzied feast of lavish and preposterous set pieces, performances, and tall tales.
Literature
“Notebooks, English Virtuosi, and Early Modern Science” makes a profound claim about the need for cognitive restructuring in the face of information overload.
Visual Arts
Fuse Museum Notes: The American Folk Art Museum goes down, Harvard Art Museums go dark
Significant changes in the world of the art museum can trigger roiling controversy or transpire in problematic quiet.
Dance
Fuse Dance Feature: Boston Ballet’s “Close to Chuck”
Surrounded by the gilded ornamentation of the Boston Opera house, the three minimalist pieces that make up “Close to Chuck” could not be any more of a contrast.
Television
Fuse TV Review: Give Some Love to TBS’s “The Pete Holmes Show”
Along with the absence of a desk, the fact that guests aren’t coming on in order to plug their latest whatever sets “The Pete Holmes Shows” apart from typical late-night fare.
Food
Fuse Food Commentary: The Fauvists of Cuisine — Test Tube or Taste Test?
Molecular gastronomy, the application of scientific principles to the understanding of domestic and gastronomic food principles is shaking up the food world harder than Shake ‘n Bake.
Judicial Review
REVISED: Judicial Review #11: “The Great Gatsby” — A Great Opera?
This Judicial Review deals with the Boston premiere of John Harbison’s opera version of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby. Read the reactions and join the conversation.
Commentary
Fuse Commentary: Boston Symphony Orchestra Season 2014-15 — A Jolt of Energy and Stability
Most of the programs during BSO conductor Andris Nelsons’ ten subscription weeks look fresh and, if not outright adventurous, on paper they at least look more exciting than not.
Interview
Fuse Theater Interview: Swiss Playwright Jérôme Richer on Questioning “The Real Meaning of Words”
“Everybody has the power to change the world because we’re a part of it. Even if it’s a really small change, it needs to be done. Writing is my pebble in this path.” – Jérôme Richer
Preview
Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week
Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, dance, film and theater that’s coming up this week.
Review
Fuse Concert Review: Jack DeJohnette’s Spring Quartet — Creative Flexibility Times Four
The point of the Spring Quartet, one assumes, is to showcase its four multi-talented members, particularly their talents as composers.
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