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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, theater, music, dance, visual arts, and author events for the coming week.
Taken together, it’s a bracing, provocative, and – perhaps above all – fun survey of music for the stage from, for England, the conspicuously abundant 20th century.
Two 20th century gems bracketed the evening, and all four works showed how the ballet idiom can serve and be served by classical music.
Mothers & Sons raises important questions about struggle, acceptance, and love, dramatizing battles that are still being waged.
Why did this version of Far from the Madding Crowd have to be so straight-laced and traditional, so bland and dull?
The collaboration with the mortally ill Ed Pincus, Lucia Small explains, came about from a mutual desire to experiment with documentary form.
It’s not by accident that some of the greatest coming-of-age stories are concerned with deconstructing social stereotypes.
How can you act sanely when your country is brazenly committing genocide? Many of us didn’t.
With this one project, Boston has gone from a public art also-ran community to a serious cultural player.
Classical Music Commentary: On Andris Nelsons’ First Season in Boston and a Look Ahead at 2015-16
By the end of Andris Nelsons’s inaugural season he had the BSO playing with lots of energy and like they really care, night in and out.
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