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Fuse Dance Review: Smile and Sneer — Mark Morris at the ICA
Now 58, the noted choreographer’s succinct gestural language, coincident use of music and musical ideas, and spatial elasticity is now completely second nature.
Fuse Book Review: Drama Queen — The Theatrical Nature of Elizabethan England
To his credit, Garry Wills does not attempt to tell us what Shakespeare or his contemporaries “really meant,” nor does he suggest that there are ways that these plays ought be staged.
Fuse Concert Review: Cellist Johannes Moser joins the BSO Out on the High Seas
Johannes Moser is a cellist I have admired for some years.
Fuse Jazz Concert Review: Laszlo Gardony Quartet — Always Swinging
Made up of Boston-based musicians, the Laszlo Gardony Quartet is one of the city’s under-recognized treasures.
Fuse Film Review: “Selma” — Civil Rights By the Numbers
Selma doesn’t dare to offer the viewer anything new.
Fuse Book Review: “The Man Between” — Homage to a Translator Extraordinaire
The Man Between offers a fascinating glimpse of the late master translator Michael Henry Heim, its reportedly modest and reticent protagonist.
Fuse Theater Review: Bedlam’s “Saint Joan” — Ferociously Relevant
The virtuoso approach of Bedlam’s Saint Joan, its unpretentious immediacy, makes this production an exuberant Shavian history lesson that should not to be missed.
Fuse Concert Review: The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain — Delightfully Daffy
The fooling around was far more compelling than I could have imagined: the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain know how to throw a fun, funny, family-friendly show.
From the Editor’s Desk
Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week
Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, film, dance, author events, and theater for the coming week.
Music
Fuse Concert Review: Cellist Johannes Moser joins the BSO Out on the High Seas
Johannes Moser is a cellist I have admired for some years.
Theater
Fuse Theater Review: Bedlam’s “Saint Joan” — Ferociously Relevant
The virtuoso approach of Bedlam’s Saint Joan, its unpretentious immediacy, makes this production an exuberant Shavian history lesson that should not to be missed.
Film
Fuse Film Review: “Selma” — Civil Rights By the Numbers
Selma doesn’t dare to offer the viewer anything new.
Books
Fuse Book Review: Drama Queen — The Theatrical Nature of Elizabethan England
To his credit, Garry Wills does not attempt to tell us what Shakespeare or his contemporaries “really meant,” nor does he suggest that there are ways that these plays ought be staged.
Visual Arts
Fuse Visual Arts Commentary: The Telling Anonymity of Political Street Art
Highlighting the identity of artists is essential in art world journalism, but it appears to be unimportant when reporting on the artistic contributions to political street demonstrations.
Dance
Fuse Dance Review: Smile and Sneer — Mark Morris at the ICA
Now 58, the noted choreographer’s succinct gestural language, coincident use of music and musical ideas, and spatial elasticity is now completely second nature.
Television
Fuse TV Commentary: Toward a Critique of “The Big Bang Theory”
On this show, thriving on caricature as it does, the chasm between Amy and Sheldon stops laughter long enough to suggest poignancy.
Food
Fuse Restaurant Review: Wasabi in North Cambridge — Superior Sushi
What is served at Wasabi is so-o-o-o fresh.
Video Games
Fuse Video Game Review: The Super Smash Bros. Are Back — Better Than Ever
Whether you are new or returning to the Super Smash Bros. series as a veteran, get this title on the Wii U and skip the 3DS version — unless you absolutely have to have the game on-the-go.
Commentary
Fuse Commentary: On Michel Houellebecq, Islamophobia, and “Charlie Hebdo”
It is unlikely that those who turned automatic fire on the staff of Charlie Hebdon ever read Michel Houellebecq.
Interview
Fuse Interview: Scott Timberg Looks at the “Culture Crash” Square in the Eye
“It’s not depressing to be told that writers and artists are getting screwed. It’s our daily reality.”
Preview
Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week
Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, film, dance, author events, and theater for the coming week.
Review
Fuse Dance Review: Smile and Sneer — Mark Morris at the ICA
Now 58, the noted choreographer’s succinct gestural language, coincident use of music and musical ideas, and spatial elasticity is now completely second nature.
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