Month: January 2015

Film Review: “Inherent Vice” — Like an Acid Trip, Secondhand

January 25, 2015
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Inherent Vice is a giddy, trippy potpourri that tries to make a virtue of never quite settling on what kind of story it wants to tell.

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Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

January 25, 2015
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, film, dance, author events, and theater for the coming week.

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Dance Review: Smile and Sneer — Mark Morris at the ICA

January 24, 2015
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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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Book Review: Drama Queen — The Theatrical Nature of Elizabethan England

January 24, 2015
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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.

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Concert Review: Cellist Johannes Moser joins the BSO Out on the High Seas

January 24, 2015
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Johannes Moser is a cellist I have admired for some years.

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Jazz Concert Review: Laszlo Gardony Quartet — Always Swinging

January 23, 2015
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Made up of Boston-based musicians, the Laszlo Gardony Quartet is one of the city’s under-recognized treasures.

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Fuse Film Review: “Selma” — Civil Rights By the Numbers

January 22, 2015
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Selma doesn’t dare to offer the viewer anything new.

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Book Review: “The Man Between” — Homage to a Translator Extraordinaire

January 21, 2015
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The Man Between offers a fascinating glimpse of the late master translator Michael Henry Heim, its reportedly modest and reticent protagonist.

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Theater Review: Bedlam’s “Saint Joan” — Ferociously Relevant

January 20, 2015
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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.

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Concert Review: The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain — Delightfully Daffy

January 19, 2015
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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.

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