Coming Attractions
Our expert critics supply a guide to film, visual art, theater, author readings, television, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.
The Arts Fuse Currents
Music
As he prepares for Strangecreek, Ryan Montbleau reflects on introspective songwriting, longtime ties to the festival, and music as a form of truth-telling.
Visual Arts
An MFA exhibition traces how Amsterdam’s Jewish community shaped the artist’s imagination, revealing a rich interplay of daily life, biblical narrative, and cultural exchange.
Film
A stylish but troubling portrait that soft-pedals power, propaganda, and Vladimir Putin.
Books
In this volume, Gregory Orr revisits a lifetime of poetic concerns with grace, though not always with urgency.
Poetry at The Arts Fuse
This week’s poem: Dorian Kotsiopoulos’s “In Translation”
Dance
Lam Dance Works pairs visiting virtuosity with emerging dancers, revealing both the promise and growing pains of a young Boston troupe.
Theater
After a year of safe revivals and recycled material, companies hint at change—but caution, celebrity casting, and déjà vu still dominate the lineup.
Television
A remarkable young cast anchors Netflix’s “Lord of the Flies,” a haunting adaptation that resonates sharply with today’s anxieties about masculinity and violence.
Podcasts
Host Elizabeth Howard talks to Peter Bouteneff about the power of silence in the music of Estonian composer Arvo Pärt.
Short Fuses
Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
Spotlight
Why festival programming—and humanities partnerships—can help the BSO.
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.
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