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Theater Review: “Pru Payne” — Critical Condition

Coming Attractions

Coming Attractions: October 13 through 28 — What Will Light Your Fire

Our expert critics supply a guide to film, visual art, theater, author readings, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.

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Music

Classical Concert Preview: Music Worcester’s The Complete Bach

By Jonathan Blumhofer | October 22, 2024

“The more you listen to Bach, the more the synapses fire and you just have to take hold of the reins and let the Bach horse take you wherever it will.”

Visual Arts

Design Review: “Polinature” — A Plug-in Vertical Garden That Fights Climate Change

By Mark Favermann | October 2, 2024

Projects like “Polinature” overcome reams of bureaucracy, reinforced by government inertia, in order to improve our environment in admirably cost effective and efficient ways.

Film

Film Review: “Rumours” — It All Ends with a Whimper

By Peter Keough | October 21, 2024

Few other films this year will match the absurd satiric heights of director Guy Maddin’s “Rumours”.

Books

Book Review: Tamas Dobozy’s “Stasio” — Noir Fiction That is Haunted and Haunting

By Vincent Czyz | October 21, 2024

“Stasio” is an exercise in noir fiction with the intellectual depth we expect from our best writers, compounded by the lyricism of Tamas Dobozy’s style, crisp dialogue, wit and humor, and well-drawn characters.

Poetry at The Arts Fuse

Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

October 17, 2024

This week’s poem: Clay Ventre’s “On the Shores of the Mediterranean”

Dance

Dance Review: Dianne McIntyre’s “In the Same Tongue” — The Dance and the Music Are One

By Jessica Lockhart | October 7, 2024

It was a mind-blowing experience. Countless times in dance performances a choreographer strives to make movements on stage mimic music. But Dianne McIntyre was dramatizing a much deeper, more organic connection.

Theater

Theater Review: “Pru Payne” — Critical Condition

By Robert Israel | October 22, 2024

This is a well-honed, mostly successful script about the difficulties of making human connections — a drama about seizing the day.

Television

Television Review: From South Korea with Love, “A Virtuous Business” — Sex Toys “R” Us

By Sarah Osman | October 21, 2024

The enormously entertaining “A Virtuous Business” also offers a lesson in nerve and resilience that women everywhere should learn from.

Podcasts

Short Fuse Podcast #69: Talking About “The Museum of Other People”

By Elizabeth Howard | September 10, 2024

Short Fuse host Elizabeth Howard talks to Adam Kuper about his book “The Museum of Other People: From Colonial Acquisitions to Cosmopolitan Exhibitions”.

Short Fuses

October Short Fuses — Materia Critica

By Arts Fuse Editor | October 3, 2024

Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

Food

Film Review: “Flux Gourmet” — Food, Glorious Food

By Peg Aloi | August 23, 2022

Flux Gourmet occasionally reminded me of the films of Peter Greenaway, who often juxtaposed the grotesque or disturbing with the beautiful and ethereal.

About the Arts Fuse

The Arts Fuse was established in June, 2007 as a curated, independent online arts magazine dedicated to publishing in-depth criticism, along with high quality previews, interviews, and commentaries. The publication's over 70 freelance critics (many of them with decades of experience) cover dance, film, food, literature, music, television, theater, video games, and visual arts. Support arts coverage that believes that culture matters.