Arts Fuse Editor
Carolynn Kingyens’s debut book of poems, Before the Big Bang Makes a Sound, reminds us of our everyday struggles.
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Strange Hotel focuses on a woman’s life in middle age, suspended between the hollow satisfactions of memory and anxiety about the future.
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The only way forward, to go beyond American myths of innocence, is to confront the enduring crimes of the past.
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I was blown away by how good After We Leave looks, its subtlety and plausibility and confident simplicity.
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Gish Jen’s new novel asks, Is ambition worthwhile in a world without justice?
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New recordings of Peter Schmoll and His Neighbors and of Euryanthe pose an embarrassing question: why is the opera repertory so narrow?
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A victim Adrienne Miller is most certainly not: the self-portrait that emerges in her pages is of an accomplished, wise, wittily self-deprecating author of her own destiny.
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The amazing Bereishit Dance Company asks how dance fits into the physical world.
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The Field is a fairly original, if slightly problematic, folk horror-tinged story.
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Arts Commentary: Politics IS Performance — A Director Evaluates the Candidates
Politicians are forced to perform on a massive stage and under the fierce gaze of a thousand lenses, yet few have real skills in that arena.
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