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Theater Review: “The Convert” — A Zimbabwean Tragedy

February 6, 2016
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The Convert is a complex historical drama that shows us individuals crushed among powerful contradictions.

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Theater Review: “An Octoroon” — Racist Melodrama, Post-Modern Version

February 5, 2016
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Company One’s actors are top notch and they expertly serve the production’s antiquated style of non-realistic acting.

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Jazz Review: Pianist Kenny Werner — Teaching “Effortless Mastery”

February 4, 2016
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“The problem is that more people get lost going to music school than get found.”

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Fuse Book Review: Taking God On — Atheists Should Come Out Fighting

February 2, 2016
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Fighting God is logically argued, lucid, and makes a powerful case for a more secular nation.

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Concert Review: The Bard in Boston – Part 1

February 2, 2016
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This season’s three-week commemoration of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death – the first such thematic series of Andris Nelsons’ BSO directorship – go off to a compelling start.

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Fuse Concert Review: A Match Made in Heaven — A Far Cry and Blue Heron

February 1, 2016
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I look forward to more collaborations between these two ensembles, who were born to make, as they say, really beautiful music together.

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Theater Interview: Deborah Lake Fortson on “Body & Sold”

February 1, 2016
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Audiences are always shocked by Body & Sold.

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Book Review: “Les Diaboliques” — An Essential Hidden Dimension in French Literature

January 31, 2016
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In “Les Diaboliques” readers must expect quite a lot of crime and some misogyny as well.

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Fuse Coming Attractions: January 31 through February 9 —What Will Light Your Fire This Week

January 31, 2016
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, theater, dance, music, visual arts, and author events for the coming week.

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Dance Review: Dada Masilo’s “Swan Lake” — An Entertainment Full of Heart and Art

January 31, 2016
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South African choreographer Dada Masilo goes even further into the Swan Lake fantasy: here, the characters, men and women, are all swans.

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