Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.
Television Review: “This is Not Happening” — Standup Comedy Gets Real
This Is Not Happening serves up welcome shots of honestly and reality that hit you in the most ticklish parts of your own amusingly flawed, hilariously stupid humanity.
Jazz CD Review: The OGJB Quartet — Skipping About Through Time
It is enormous fun to hear how this group of veterans try to think in new ways — as they do throughout this engaging release.
Visual Arts Review: Yin Yu Tang — The Architecture of Daily Life at the Peabody Essex Museum
Yin Yu Yang is a brilliant example of architectural and cultural collaboration that allows visitors to experience and learn about Chinese art, architecture, and culture.
Film Commentary: “Between the Lines” Eulogizes the Beginning of the End of Boston’s Alt-Weekly Era
Even 42 years ago, disillusionment was setting in among the workers at alt-weekly papers like The Real Paper and The Boston Phoenix.
Theater Commentary: The Boston Theater Critics Association — Still Evaluating?
The BTCA should take action in support of #MeToo.
Theater Review: BalletX — Plenty of Spunk
Here was another (all-too) typical example of ballet companies reinforcing a patriarchy that hardly reflects the number of women in their ranks.
Arts Fuse Podcast #15: REE-AL-O-TEE!
The boys (Lucas Spiro and Matt Hanson) are joined once again by Arts Fuse editor-in-chief Bill Marx.
Book Review: “Accounting for Slavery” — Plantation Roots of Scientific Management
In this valuable study, Caitlin Rosenthal isolates an assortment of business practices and technologies that reflect the sophistication of New World plantation economies — dispelling myths of their romantic crudeness.
Theater Review: “black odyssey boston” — An Electrifying Epic Journey
black odyssey boston is a fearless, funny, and fraught reimagining of Homer’s Odyssey as the story of the African-American diasporic experience.