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Theater Review: “Ben Butler” — Civil War Laughs

October 3, 2018
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A comedy about slavery poses considerable challenges in our #blacklivesmatter times, but the characters bounce gleefully through endless rounds of verbal sparring.

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Jazz CD Review: Pianist Erroll Garner — Remastered Sessions from His Prime

September 8, 2019
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Octave is issuing twelve sessions (“newly restored and expanded”) of Erroll Garner material from the ’60s and ’70s, when the popular pianist was at the height of his career.

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Film Review: “Satanic Panic” — A Silly, Fun, Trashy Horror Vibe

September 5, 2019
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Satanic Panic is a crazy ride, managing along the way to poke fun at the lifestyles of the rich and bored, reminding us that decadence among the upper classes is very scary indeed.

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Opera Review: Boston Early Music Opera’s “Orlando” — Divine Madness

June 10, 2019
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This entertaining opera is a real soap opera, given that it chronicles the fallout of the passionate protagonist’s unrequited love.

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Film/TV Review: “Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive” — A Fresh Look

October 30, 2017
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Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive does an honorable service for the writer who embodied, as well as created, “The Imp of the Perverse.”

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Music Review: Saxon and UFO — Still Howling After All These Years

October 2, 2017
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Saxon and UFO may not be ‘forever young,’ but their spirits have yet to grow old.

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Music Interview: Do It Now Supplies a New New Beat

February 8, 2018
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Older folks say Do It Now reminds them of the Beats.

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Musician Interview: Taylor Goldsmith of Dawes on the Making of “Oh Brother”

November 18, 2024
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“Every record makes the setlist better because we get to keep the things that have really been killin’ and then do things that make you push yourself because these are songs that you haven’t played in several years.”

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Arts Commentary: Arts Criticism — Stuck in the Bunker

August 21, 2022
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Arts critics are not expected to take the cultural temperature; they are there to reinforce the assumption that the business of the arts in America is … business.

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The Arts on Stamps of the World — December 9

December 9, 2017
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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

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