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[Updated.] Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, theater, and film that’s coming up this week.
Read MoreThe Conservatory’s Contemporary Improvisation program is one of the best things we have in New England music, and if you’ve lived for any length of time in the Boston area without attending one of its concerts, you’ve missed an important experience.
Read MoreWhy does John Merrick get a room in the London Hospital for the rest of his life? Because he’s charming and he’s witty, while the pinheads next door to him didn’t fare that well.
Read MoreDramatist Jeffrey Hatcher didn’t become a working adaptor until the mid-1990s. He saw that some of his playwright friends were doing it and he thought: “Why not me?”
Read MoreTerraferma is well-meaning, properly on the side of human rights, but also schematic and thematically heavy-handed.
Read MoreLeon Fleisher was part of an outburst of great North American pianists. Many were ill-fated, but, as this commanding box set proves, Fleisher stayed the course.
Read MoreThe pleasure of Talley’s Folly is in its details, the give-and-take of the dialogue, the smaller and larger revelations they tease out of each other, the characterization of the two human creatures dancing their dance.
Read More“A great novel makes for the best script an actor could imagine,” said actor Colin Firth recently, on accepting an award for his reading of Graham Greene’s The End of the Affair. Many theatergoers would agree.
Read MoreSatoko Fujii’s quartet could go from 0 to 100 at the drop of a hat, but only once in a while, and nearly always at the perfect time.
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Commentary: “Deluge” — How Vermont Survived Tropical Storm Irene
I fully support the themes that Peggy Shinn explores, articulated in Deluge’s subtitle: this one small state did save itself.
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