Rufus Wainwright is like that: unfiltered family love and dysfunction threaded through whammo pop tunes wrapped in the sequins of more than a little clear-to-those-who-know celebrity.
Review
Television Review: “Louie” at Season Four — Art House TV
Louie is a difficult show to advertise because it is the only example of art-television at the moment.
Theater Review: “Cassandra Speaks” — The Voice of a Crusading Journalist
Cassandra Speaks is yet another dazzling vehicle for actor Tod Randolph, who excels in etching brilliant stage portraits of famous, complicated women.
Visual Arts Review: “9 Artists” at MIT — Alienation, Resignation, and Despair Made Stimulating
After repeated visits (and you will need several to even scratch this dense content), 9 Artists begins to hang together in satisfying ways.
Film Review: “Ida” — A Masterful Meditation on Fate and Circumstance
Ida proffers a cinematic experience that is austere and mesmerizing.
Theater Review: “Apt. 4D” — Beau Jest’s Sly, Comic Ode to Film Noir
Beau Jest’s playful Apt 4D offers a wonderful opportunity to celebrate the creativity and imagination of the truly extraordinary theater troupe.
Fuse Rock Concert Review: Widespread Panic Hits a Collective Groove
Even by Widespread Panic’s intuitive standards, this was a fairly challenging show: The setlist seemed to favor their deeper, less outgoing material.
Book Review: “Living in the Meantime” — Too Ambitious for its Own Good
Richard Barnett is familiar with the wide variety of characters that can be found in the American South, and fond of the cadences of their speech—so much so that these preoccupations become a burden.
Fuse Book Review: The O’Neill and the Transformation of Modern American Theater — Personality and Process
In this book, personality trumps process, although The Eugene O’Neill’s Theater Center’s purpose is, at its source, process.
Fuse Concert Review: Commonwealth Lyric Theater’s “Mozart and Salieri”
The Commonwealth Lyric Theater has again brought to the fore an underperformed, unfamiliar masterpiece well worth getting to know. Good for them and lucky for us.