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Theater Commentary: When Sorrows Come – Tragedy Befalls Regional Theater Companies

July 19, 2023
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Theater companies all over the country are cutting back or shutting down. And the bad news just keeps coming.

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Film Review: “Joker” — Here Come the Killer Clowns

October 3, 2019
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Screenwriter-director Todd Phillips knows well what he is doing in the calculated way he escalates the bloodshed in Joker.

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Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

August 23, 2013
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in music and theater that’s coming up this week.

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Film Review: “Close” — Feeling the Tragic Weight of the Human Condition

February 9, 2023
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Some might consider Close to be a depressing film, but its impressive understanding of human frailty and the power of forgiveness is revelatory.

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Book Review: “What Just Happened” — Memorable Thoughts on “A Long Year”

January 27, 2022
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From the pandemic’s beginning, Charles Finch uses the crisis as a nearly daily backdrop for musings on all sorts. The results are at once cathartic, frightening, exasperating, and often hilarious.

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Classical CD Review: Bravo Leoš Janáček — A Marvelous Serving of his Vocal Music

July 16, 2019
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This album led me to choose, for a summer project, to listen to all of the music of Janáček — and it has been a complete delight.

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Book Review: Peter Jackson and the Making of Middle-Earth

November 9, 2018
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Journalist Ian Nathan presents Peter Jackson’s trials in bringing Tolkien’s books to film as if he was writing a spy thriller.

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Theater Review: Arthur Miller’s “Broken Glass” – A Boston Premiere For An American Master

September 14, 2015
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The New Repertory Theatre is paying homage to Arthur Miller’s centennial with a superb staging of one of the dramatist’s later works, Broken Glass.

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Theater Review: “The Cake” — Thoughtfully Baked

January 15, 2020
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Dramatist Bekah Brunstetter sidesteps easy answers and pat revelations to produce a nuanced comedy about people coming to terms with who they are and where they are from.

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Film Review: “Men of the Cloth”—Portrait of an Artist as an Old Man

December 7, 2015
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Director Vicki Vasilopoulos has masterfully crafted a documentary about tailors, clothing, and the painstaking search for excellence.

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