Arts Fuse Editor
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival production of Othello lacks a tragic dimension not because it highlights Othello’s “Otherness,” but because it eschews any vestige of grandeur or nobility.
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M. Night Shyamalan turns the trilogy topper he needed to make after Unbreakable and Split into a preposterous group therapy session.
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Director A. Nora Long’s decision to collaborate with an all female-identifying design team and crew underscores her commitment to a feminist vision.
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Cold War is a timeless story of romantic love, and its persistence in the face of upheaval.
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Josh Begley, in a mere six minutes, demonstrates how impossible the notion of a border wall is, from an engineering and construction perspective.
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Heartland proffers a rare combination — it is a prescient history lesson that also works dramatically.
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Demanding that people pay attention to quality is about as audacious a demand you can take in our giddy culture.
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.
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Pledge is Daniel Robbins’ third film, and his first really good one.
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Classical Music Commentary: Poetic Narratives in the Concert Hall, and a New Recording of Dvořák’s “The Spectre’s Bride”
A reflection on the whole tradition of combining longish narrative poems to music, especially for performance in a concert hall by large forces (e.g., singers and orchestra).
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