Month: March 2014
The Fuse doesn’t usually publicize auditions, but it’s news that Debbie Allen is swinging through Boston this week seeking young dancers between the ages of seven and 22.
Read MoreYes, Gary Numan’s jumped a bandwagon, but the former new-wave hitmaker has done it with style.
Read MoreFanny Lou Hamer’s life and the political struggle, which gave us the Voting Rights Act, is the basis of Mary Watkins’ two-act opera.
Read MoreFor at least the last decade, the LAPO has set the bar in creative programming, commissioning new works, and integrating itself into its community.
Read MoreThis is a vaguely threatening day for New Englanders who love their NPR in duplicate.
Read MoreHeralded cellist Yo-Yo Ma has played with several distinguished pianists over the years, but none (are) better than Kathryn Stott.
Read MoreRobin Lane’s story goes back to her ‘60s days as a child of Hollywood glamor, her long tenure as a Boston rock survivor, and her recent renaissance as a musical counsellor for abused women.
Read More“Bernard Malamud is the great sentence-maker, the great craftsman, and the sheer quality of those sentences has never perhaps been given its complete due.”
Read MoreCentered on the acting talents of the late Tuncel Kurtiz, the film is a ribald, engaging, and briskly-paced concoction of improvisation and folklore.
Read MoreAlthough rather shallow in its characterizations, “Bad Words” makes up for this deficiency in its rollicking, R-rated demolition of a familiar character-building institution: the spelling bee.
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