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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, theater, music, dance, visual arts, and author events for the coming week.
Tony Judt is an American treasure, in time he may prove as great to our country as George Orwell and Albert Camus are to theirs.
Ricki and the Flash is a film that is bad enough to hurt a lot of reputations.
Technology is the gimmick in this two-hander, but what makes Blink absorbing is the writing, teamed with excellent acting and directing.
“For artists involved in doing ensemble devising, there is tremendous value in the creative challenge on every level.”
The End of the Tour don’t remain a hall of mirrors but become a bridge that conveys its subject’s honest, painful humanity.
Writing seriously about a play that might not be meant to be taken so seriously presents a risk, but the provocation embedded in the social message of Born Yesterday can’t be escaped.
The script’s suggestion of mythological violence elevates Eyes Shut. Door Open. above the formulaic “dark domestic secrets revealed at a family reunion” plot line.
In Van Gogh and Nature, human beings play a supporting role. Sometimes moths, butterflies, and poppies are the stars.
Classical Music Feature: Fifty Years Later, Jacqueline du Pré’s Elgar Remains the Gold Standard
There is something undeniably affecting about Elgar’s composition and cellist Jacqueline du Pré realizes it all with an unbridled depth of feeling.
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