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Fuse Theater Review: “Traces” — Dazzling On-Stage Mayhem

October 4, 2014
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The more-than-satisfactory appeal of Traces is to see these gifted athletes perform time-honored circus skills – the attempt to make the performers look like televised rock stars falls flat.

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Film Review: “E-Team” — A Powerful Documentary about Defending Human Rights

October 4, 2014
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The excellent E-Team documents a remarkable effort to investigate the abuse of human rights, an endeavor that, for the most part, goes unheralded in our mainstream media.

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Concert Review: Andris Nelsons conducts Beethoven, Bartók, and Tchaikovsky

October 2, 2014
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The BSO played with palpable enthusiasm. Andris Nelsons conducted with characteristic energy. There was, by the end of the evening, certainly, quite a bit about which to be happy.

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Book Review: Sanford Friedman’s Utterly Original “Conversations with Beethoven”

October 2, 2014
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How well Conversations with Beethoven works as fiction will depend on the engagement and imaginative powers of the reader.

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Book Review: Marilynne Robinson’s “Lila” — A Vision of Life More Damned Than Redeemed

October 2, 2014
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Lila is an ambitious book that is deeply flawed and not nearly in the same class as Marilynne Robinson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Gilead.

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Fuse TV Review: Political Satirist John Oliver — Viewers Are Responding, not Just Watching

October 1, 2014
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Each John Oliver monologue takes a different weighty and urgent political issue and deconstructs it with wit, clarity and moral purpose.

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Film Review: 1967’s “Accident” — Romance Among Frigid, Upper-Class Brits

October 1, 2014
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Playwright Harold Pinter is behind the austere screenplay, keeping things puzzling, an often silent script punctured with bursts of cryptic, hostile dialogue.

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Book Review: “Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death” — A New Language for Living with Auschwitz

September 30, 2014
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Otto Dov Kulka’s exploration of the time he spent in Auschwitz as a child won the 2014 Jewish Quarterly-Wingate prize, one of the judges calling it “the greatest book on Auschwitz since Primo Levi.”

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Rock CD Review: Queen, “Live at the Rainbow ‘74” — Before They Were Massive

September 30, 2014
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The newly released Live at the Rainbow ’74 set proves that Queen had been slaying audiences since the beginning of their career.

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Concert Review: Vessels of Song — Boston Musica Viva Marks Rosh HaShanah

September 30, 2014
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To my mind, with Assembly of the Souls, composer Eitan Steinberg is working in Pulitzer contention territory.

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