Arts Fuse Editor
Kelly Reichardt’s cinema gives us slow, rich portraits of life’s daily rhythms, its frustrations and unresolved conflicts.
How refreshing it is to see a female protagonist whose strength of will and character is not of the superhuman variety.
Mark Greif’s analyses can be sharply counter-intuitive..
Ballet steps from the classroom were sprinkled in with modern dance, moonwalking, shimmies, groping duets, and any other kind of movement.
Arts Fuse critics select the best in theater, visual arts, film, music, author events, and dance for the coming week.
Brand X was essentially a bunch of top-flight session men who got together to blow off steam, a UK version of Weather Report.
Despite an appearance by Satan, this is not all that frightening a yarn for Halloween, but the MRT’s production is absorbing nonetheless.
It’s the wild mind of puppeteer Paul Zaloom that’s really on display here.
Sarah Ruhl attempts, but fails, to discover illuminating similarities between the powerful then and now.
The Murder of Sonny Liston is an absorbing, albeit speculative, attempt at addressing the mystery that died with the man.

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