Posts

Theater Interview: Playwright Bernard Pollack on “Little Peasants” — A Holistic View of Union Organizing

February 18, 2024
Posted in , ,

Must the stage only discreetly charm the bourgeoisie?

Read More

Concert Review: Cowboy Junkies — Still Outside the Mainstream

February 18, 2024
Posted in , , ,

For years now, Cowboy Junkies has been bringing its brand of contemplative, atmospheric rock ’n’ roll into a patchwork of independent venues in our region.

Read More

Children’s Book Reviews: Stories to Tickle Your Funny Bone

February 18, 2024
Posted in , ,

Have a laugh as you read these charmingly funny picture books with your child.

Read More

Television Review: “The Vince Staples Show” — Perfect Straight Man for a Surrealist World

February 18, 2024
Posted in , ,

A welcome addition to the absurdist satire genre of rapper-turned-comedian.

Read More

Opera Album Review: A Short but Virtuosic Opera from 1786 Receives Its First Recording

February 17, 2024
Posted in , , ,

Even without international-caliber singers and players, Giovanni Piaisello’s “Amor vendicato” works much magic.

Read More

NY Theater Review: “The Connector” – Truth or Consequences

February 16, 2024
Posted in , ,

The musical’s focus on truth in journalism resonates in our post-2016, “fake news,” and Artificial Intelligence-saturated environment.

Read More

Film Review: “The Taste of Things” – Gallic Feasts for the Eyes

February 15, 2024
Posted in , ,

A 100-year-old novel provides the basis for some sumptuous moviegoing.

Read More

Concert Review: Brittany Howard — A Determined Musical Evolution

February 15, 2024
Posted in , , ,

The set impressed in its diversity, boosted by the cohesive breadth of “What Now,” even as its homages grew overt in the second half.

Read More

Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

February 15, 2024
Posted in ,

This week’s poem: Wyn Cooper’s “Masquerade”

Read More

Classical Concert Review: Karina Canellakis Conducts Bartók and Haydn

February 14, 2024
Posted in , ,

Karina Canellakis’s tour through Bartók’s “Bluebeard’s Castle” showed why she remains a conductor who continues to exercise a remarkable interpretive power.

Read More

Recent Posts

Popular Posts

Categories

Archives