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Theater Review: Lyric Stage’s “City of Angels” — A Witty, Jazzy Delight

April 7, 2015
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The Lyric Stage Company’s entertaining production of this Tony-winner for best musical, book, and score hits most of the right noirish notes.

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Book Review: When Fate Totters — Pascal Garnier’s Bleak Romans Noirs

April 7, 2015
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Pascal Garnier’s characters slip through cracks, cross borders, pass through the thin mirrors of the self, and commit irreparable acts.

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Concert Review: Violinist Christian Tetzlaff, Andris Nelsons, and the BSO — Electrifying

April 6, 2015
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Saturday’s was the most electrifying, exciting, spontaneous-sounding, inevitable performance of this warhorse (Beethoven’s Violin Concerto) I’ve heard.

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Television Review: Netflix’s Flimsy “House of Cards”

April 6, 2015
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For all the attention it receives and the level of cultural relevance it assumes House of Cards ought to be a much better series than its aggressive promotion makes it out to be.

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Theater Commentary: The Irrelevance of ‘Relevant’ Theater

April 5, 2015
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Where are the theaters that are bold enough to stage challenging and risky dramas about race? Not just talk the talk.

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Film Review: “Magician: The Astonishing Life of Orson Welles” — What’s the Rush?

April 5, 2015
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At a mere 1 hour and 34 minutes, Chuck Workman’s documentary about Orson Welles is rushed and sometimes choppy, leaping through the filmmaker’s bountiful life.

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Fuse Food Review: Club Passim’s New Restaurant

April 4, 2015
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Club Passim’s vegetarian days are over — the new menu is all about “globally inspired New American cuisine.”

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Jazz Commentary Series: Jazz and the Piano Concerto — Mavericks, 1938-1983

April 4, 2015
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More composers who followed their own distinctive paths when they incorporated jazz into their piano concertos.

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Theater Review: ASP’s Powerful “God’s Ear” — The Poetics of Grief

April 3, 2015
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Actors’ Shakespeare Project’s superb production of God’s Ear honors this beautiful text.

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Fuse Dance Feature: KEIGWIN + COMPANY — Choreographic Infectiousness

April 3, 2015
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“It takes a special choreographer to make audiences laugh, reflect, and empathize.”

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