Month: September 2014
Wadada Leo Smith’s latest album features a series of miraculous performances that give a new meaning to freedom: the sometimes lengthy and airily open improvisations take us on journeys but never seem to wander.
Read MoreJealousy is a misleading title for this touching movie, as the characters are less jealous than forlorn when those they love move on to other loves.
Read MoreNothing, until the very end of the opera, is ever settled or, even, as it seems: this is psychological musical drama writ large and graphically.
Read MoreArts Fuse critics select the best in music, film, visual art, theater, author readings, and dance that’s coming up in the next week.
Read MoreTheater Review: Cut and Slash Done With Panache — Lyric Stage Delivers a High-Caliber “Sweeney Todd”
To darken a story that already hinges on rape, murder, and cannibalism takes some doing, but the edgy Lyric Stage production pulls it off.
Read MoreThe centennial of the author of Make Way For Ducklings is being celebrated with a series of lectures by scholar Leonard S. Marcus.
Read MoreThe Drop‘s characterizations never go beyond hapless noir archetypes, but sharp dialogue, superb performances, and the unpredictable convolutions of the plot keep the viewer on edge.
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Jazz Perspective: Zev Feldman – A Sherlock of a Producer with an Impressive Portfolio