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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.
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Qualms aside, Slow Food is an enjoyable show that taps into the uncertainties of middle-aged parents who must confront a strange, new life without the kids.
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These films will no doubt raise your spirits in the dead of winter.
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Errol Morris allows Stephen Bannon to indulge in his vision of how he will save America, with Donald Trump as his agent and himself as the genius manipulating events.
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I thought I’d never seen such a thrilling example of how dance and music can combine and feed each other.
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I strongly advise you to explore the wizardry of Manual Cinema — its potential is considerable.
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival production of Othello lacks a tragic dimension not because it highlights Othello’s “Otherness,” but because it eschews any vestige of grandeur or nobility.
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2018 saw the release of four ambitious and powerful jazz releases driven by poetic texts.
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Mary Oliver’s poetic vision reaches back to the American transcendentalists: it encourages us, by demanding that we pay attention to our now threatened natural world, to find a moral compass.
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Classical Music Commentary: Poetic Narratives in the Concert Hall, and a New Recording of Dvořák’s “The Spectre’s Bride”
A reflection on the whole tradition of combining longish narrative poems to music, especially for performance in a concert hall by large forces (e.g., singers and orchestra).
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