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Arts Fuse Theater Appreciation: “Miracle of Miracles” — The Priscilla Beach Theatre Redux

The venerable Priscilla Beach Theatre was in danger of crumbling away — but it has been fully restored and is swinging into a summertime season of musicals.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Theater Tagged: MA, Manomet, Mary Ann Nichols, Priscilla Beach Theatre, Summer Stock

Visual Arts Feature: Cambridge’s Magazine Beach — A Fascinating View of Its History

As is the case with all public spaces, Magazine Beach reflects the sensibilities and desires of its users, who ruined, abandoned, embraced, and transformed the area.

By: Ira Papadopoulous Filed Under: Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: Cambridge, Ira Papadopoulou, MA, Magazine Beach, Magazine Beach – A Place Apart

Fuse Music Commentary: The 15th Annual New England Metalfest — Blunt Over Pretty

I was curious to see how the Boston Marathon bombing and subsequent events would filter into the fest. It began with my Facebook newsfeed displaying “Going to Worcester to blow off steam”-type messages.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Music, Rock Tagged: Boston Marathon Bombing, MA, Metafest, New England Metal and Hardcore Festival, Worcester

Music Photos: The Dropkick Murphys Drive the Snakes out of Lowell

The Dropkick Murphys shipped up to Lowell for their 2012 St. Patrick’s Day concert, and the Arts Fuse was there.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Popular Music Tagged: Dropkick Murphys, Galleries, Joe Harrington, Lowell, MA, St. Patrick's Day, Tsongas Center

Concert Review: Yeol Eum Son at Mechanics Hall, Worcester, MA

Ms. Son’s performance of Debussy’s Preludes nos. 3 – 8, while mostly note-perfect, was marked by a tentativeness that kept any of them from really blossoming.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music Tagged: MA, piano, Worcester, Yeol Eum Som

Concert Review: Concord Chamber Players and Jessica Zhou

In a nice twist, no piece on the Concord Chamber Players program was written before 1907, and that oldest piece came from a fine composer, Camille Saint-Saëns, whose music has fallen somewhat by the wayside since his death in 1922.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music Tagged: Concord, Concord Chamber Players, Jessica Zhou, MA

Fuse Opera Review: A New Virtual Opera House in Town

This is shorter, no-frills Opera as Cinema than the Met HD supplies: without long intermissions, star interviews and audience preludes and postludes from Lincoln Center, it’s almost an hour shorter.

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Opera Tagged: Brookline, Coolidge Corner Theatre, Culture Vulture, MA, Macbeth, Royal Opera House, Verdi

Visual Arts Review: Get to Know Pissarro’s People at The Clark

Camille Pissarro lived to be 73. As he aged, he looked more and more like the prototype of a Sephardic Jew. Anti-Semitic rioting accompanied the Dreyfus Affair; the painter found it prudent to stay inside his hotel room in Paris.

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: Camille Pissarro, Culture Vulture, Impressionism, MA, The Clark, Williamstown

Opera Review: “Nixon in China” at The Shalin Liu Performance Center

Although its interior says 21st century, the Shalin Liu Performance Center has a homespun, American 19th-century facade that made me think of Mark Twain and the provincial opera houses of the California Gold Rush. Care was taken to reference the original Haskins Building that once housed a clothing store called Madras and the local yacht […]

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Opera Tagged: Culture Vulture, John Adams, MA, Met in HD, Nixon in China, Peter Sellars, Rockport, Shalin Liu Performance Center

Fuse Flash: Melville Matters — A Pit-Stop in Pittsfield

On August 1st a group of dedicated Melvilleans gathered at the author’s Arrowhead home in the morning to commemorate his 191st birthday by hiking to Monument Mountain. This trip is meant to reenact the hike Melville took on August 5, 1850, which led to his meeting Nathaniel Hawthorne, whose short story collection Mosses from an […]

By: Christopher M. Ohge Filed Under: Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: American, Arrowhead, Berkshires, classic, fiction, Fuse Flash, Herman Melville, MA, Moby-Dick, Nathaniel Hawthorne, New England, novel, Pittsfield, writer

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