Arts Fuse Editor
Films like Ben is Back will not foster an understanding of how drug addiction ravages the lives of the poor, the incarcerated, the uneducated, and the less fortunate.
Read MoreRoma is Alfonso Cuarón’s gorgeous, neorealist ode to his formative years growing up in ’70s Mexico City, and to the housekeeper he took for granted as she carried him through that tumultuous decade.
Read MoreI speak for the legions who benefitted from your friendship and your great energy and talent.
Read MorePete Shelley’s elegies for the wilted flowers of romance were shouted over songs that were alternately tuneful and fierce.
Read MoreThe company’s staging is dynamic and vivacious, and the unconventional seating arrangements give audience members the chance to place themselves in the center of the action.
Read MoreNone of the opera recordings I have reviewed this past year beats this Cradle for dramatic vitality, musical imagination, and ongoing political relevance.
Read MoreThe success or failure of this show rests primarily on the physical presence, voice and acting of the actor playing the celebrated lyric tenor Roland Hayes.
Read MoreAcclaimed playwright and screenwriter Michael Cristofer’s script is very open about portraying Emile Griffith’s sexuality.
Read MoreThis blistering new documentary manages to offer a fairly balanced portrait of a man who, at the end of his life, was widely demonized.
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