Featured Articles
Fuse Music Interview: A Talk with Singer Luciana Souza
“I like singing live; I try to sing well live, I try to prepare myself for the audience, for that room. And I care a great deal about singing live, because I think that’s the experience of jazz. Even if I’m singing Brazilian music.”
Fuse Theater Review: Fine Performances in a Cut-Rate “Camelot”
Benjamin Evett as Arthur and Erica Spyres as Guenevere turn in solid performances, dependable anchors for a cast that does the best that it can in a drab, bargain basement production.
Fuse Appreciation: Seamus Heaney — “You’ll know them if I can get them true”
Throughout his writing, poet Seamus Heaney’s penetrating imagination is one that strives for accuracy.
Fuse Book Review: “Next Big Thing” — The Music Scene and Rock Clubs of 1980s Boston, Revived
In “Next Big Thing,” Terry Kitchen’s prose brings 1980s Boston, its music scene, and its rock clubs—from the long gone Rathskeller to the still standing Paradise—to life.
Fuse Book Review: Fighting the Good Fight for the Press — Publishing the Pentagon Papers
As the individual who quite possibly had the best seats in the house for the monumental legal battle that unfolded over the course of a few weeks in the summer of 1971, James Goodale provers invaluable morsels of insight and information.
Fuse Theater Review: Colin Quinn’s Sharp and Funny “Unconstitutional”
Stand-up comic Colin Quinn has been giving a lot of thought to the Founding Fathers, their vision for the new nation and, well, how that turned out. The result is his sharp and funny one-man show.
Fuse Film Interview: Will Forte on Alexander Payne’s “Nebraska”
It was intimidating to go into a situation with a director (Alexander Payne) that you love so much and an actor (Bruce Dern) who has done so much and worked with so many amazing people.
Fuse Album Review: Singer/Songwriter Jake Bugg Approaches “Shangri La”
Jake Bugg is hardly a punk, but he’s definitely acquired a bite that he didn’t have on his debut album.
In Brief
- Arts Fuse Year-End Fundraiser: Once More unto the Breach, Dear Friends, Once More
Please send tax deductible dollars to “The Arts Fuse” so the magazine can continue to serve its mission — we need funds to pay our writers, to continue to grow our readership, and to raise our visibility around the region.
- Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week (AND Next Week!)
Arts Fuse critics select the best in dance, music, theater, and film that’s coming up for the next two weeks.
- Fuse News: Concert/recording Announcement
Last year, Arts Fuse Critic Jonathan Blumhofer was awarded a grant to support a concert of his music performed by the Worcester Chamber Music Society.
- Fuse News: Remembrance — Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing
Doris Lessing baffled categories and critics, except for those, like me, who were marked by her and knew her for the bold and extraordinary writer and creature that she was.
Music
Fuse Music Interview: A Talk with Singer Luciana Souza
“I like singing live; I try to sing well live, I try to prepare myself for the audience, for that room. And I care a great deal about singing live, because I think that’s the experience of jazz. Even if I’m singing Brazilian music.”
Theater
Fuse Theater Review: Fine Performances in a Cut-Rate “Camelot”
Benjamin Evett as Arthur and Erica Spyres as Guenevere turn in solid performances, dependable anchors for a cast that does the best that it can in a drab, bargain basement production.
Film
Fuse Film Interview: Will Forte on Alexander Payne’s “Nebraska”
It was intimidating to go into a situation with a director (Alexander Payne) that you love so much and an actor (Bruce Dern) who has done so much and worked with so many amazing people.
Literature
Fuse Appreciation: Seamus Heaney — “You’ll know them if I can get them true”
Throughout his writing, poet Seamus Heaney’s penetrating imagination is one that strives for accuracy.
Visual Arts
Fuse Visual Arts Review: “Maus” and More — Art Spiegelman at the Jewish Museum
Art Spiegelman believes that “MAD” magazine was more subversive for his generation of protesters than either marijuana or LSD. It certainly radicalized him.
Dance
Fuse Dance Review: The Stephen Petronio Company — Creating Fascinating Structures of Dance
I was mesmerized by the coherence of the shifting patterns, their ideas so clearly presented, even though the work by no means provided more than a suggestion of a story.
Television
Fuse TV Review: “Breaking Bad” Ends Well — “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue”
Over the past five years of Breaking Bad, the chemistry of fate has run its course.
Video Games
Arts Fuse Year-End Fundraiser: Once More unto the Breach, Dear Friends, Once More
Please send tax deductible dollars to “The Arts Fuse” so the magazine can continue to serve its mission — we need funds to pay our writers, to continue to grow our readership, and to raise our visibility around the region.
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
Arts Fuse Film Commentary: A Contrarian View of “12 Years a Slave”
Why haven’t more movies been made about American slavery? Hollywood studio racism is certainly a prime factor; but even for determined anti-racists, there’s also the aesthetic problem of creating a compelling film drama.
Interview
Fuse Music Interview: A Talk with Singer Luciana Souza
“I like singing live; I try to sing well live, I try to prepare myself for the audience, for that room. And I care a great deal about singing live, because I think that’s the experience of jazz. Even if I’m singing Brazilian music.”
Preview
Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week (AND Next Week!)
Arts Fuse critics select the best in dance, music, theater, and film that’s coming up for the next two weeks.
Review
Fuse Theater Review: Fine Performances in a Cut-Rate “Camelot”
Benjamin Evett as Arthur and Erica Spyres as Guenevere turn in solid performances, dependable anchors for a cast that does the best that it can in a drab, bargain basement production.
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