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Concert Review: Chameleon Arts Ensemble Sparkles, As Usual

February 5, 2014
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Chameleon Arts Ensemble’s rather lengthy program was like a huge feast, ending with the sumptuous Saint-Saëns’ Sonata No. 1 in d minor.

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Theater Commentary: A Rare Outing for an Undervalued American Drama

October 13, 2010
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By Bill Marx Can’t we get our unjustly neglected American playwrights right? A chance to see a marvelous, overlooked American play of the 1950s.  And it is not by the prosaic William Inge. “When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means any attempt to understand the world has been given up.”…

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Poetry Review: Yves Bonnefoy — A Provocative “Second Simplicity”

March 13, 2012
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This handsome edition of Yves Bonnefoy’s recent poetry and prose in English translation is a stunning presentation of a major poet.

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Movie Review: Oscar Nominated Live Shorts — A Very Competitive Year

February 22, 2012
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Five strong contenders: production values are high, the actors excellent, and four are beautifully grounded in their settings –- Norway, Calcutta, and two in Ireland.

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Theater Review: A Visual Artist Looks at “Red”

January 18, 2012
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Arts Fuse Critic (and visual artist) Franklin Einspruch reviews “Red,” a drama about Mark Rothko, and doesn’t like what he sees.

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Film Preview: Death and Desire at the Circus — “Varieté” at the Coolidge Corner Theatre

April 26, 2016
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Varieté will be the tenth score composed by a Sheldon Mirowitz class and played by the Berklee Silent Film Orchestra.

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Book Review: “The Vaster Wilds” — A Powerful Annal of Survival

November 9, 2023
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To these eyes, Lauren Groff’s latest novel is her most accomplished yet.

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Visual Arts Review: Virtual Reality Art — Not Ready for Prime Time

February 1, 2017
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Worse, humor and irony have no place in this show’s version of virtual reality.

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Dance Feature: Boston Ballet’s “Close to Chuck”

March 1, 2014
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Surrounded by the gilded ornamentation of the Boston Opera house, the three minimalist pieces that make up “Close to Chuck” could not be any more of a contrast.

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Fuse Interview: Helen Epstein Interviews Herself — Joe Papp Biography Goes Electronic

January 13, 2011
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Author and Arts Fuse Contributor Helen Epstein explains why she decided to take her 1994 biography Joe Papp: An American Life and convert it into an eBook—given what may be the precarious future for the traditional book, she “wanted to save it for posterity.” By Helen Epstein. AF: Joe Papp died in 1991. Why publish…

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