Arts Fuse Editor
Michael Hofmann nicely captures our age of truthiness and alternate facts and multiple perspectives, the hollowness of everything from the news-cycle to pop-up restaurants, all of the distractions driven by money and advertising.
Purple is an ambitious, over-the-top endeavor, which feels completely appropriate, given the calamity at hand.
Red Sky Performance’s hold-your-breath physicality provides plenty of “wow factor.”
Mainstay singer/songwriter/guitarist Dave Wakeling and the band were in fine form in Lowell, whipping through a hit-laden 90-minute set to an enthusiastic crowd.
The national tour of the smash-hit revival retains much of the charm of the original.
The Nightingale serves as both a powerful exploration of the past (from the perspective of the exploited) and a gripping vision of resilience in the face of unfathomable hate, greed, and cruelty.
Chance’s The Big Day beautifully blends authentic passion with superior talent and special guests with star power.
The Nightingale delivers an indelible vision of inhumanity perpetuated by colonialism and white privilege.
This album lacks the desperation, the immediacy, the sheer power that made Sleater-Kinney essential in its original decade.
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