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Theater Appreciation: “Miracle of Miracles” — The Priscilla Beach Theatre Redux

July 3, 2015
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The venerable Priscilla Beach Theatre was in danger of crumbling away — but it has been fully restored and is swinging into a summertime season of musicals.

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Fuse Theater Review: An Uneven “Red” from the Peterborough Players

June 18, 2015
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There is little for the audience to take away from Red, except the anecdotal dramatization of an event inspired by Mark Rothko’s career.

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Classical Album Review: Manfred Honeck conducts Beethoven’s Symphonies nos. 5 and 7

December 20, 2015
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This is truly exciting, world-beating Beethoven, played with gusto and a kind of musical intelligence that you simply can’t take for granted.

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Fuse Film Review: “The Lobster” — “The Bachelor” Gone Bizarro

June 1, 2016
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Let’s just say that there’s more than just absurdity for absurdity’s sake here — this is an exercise in wry Swiftian satire.

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Rock Concert Preview: Chuck Prophet’s “Wake the Dead” — Singing of Mortality

January 26, 2025
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Predictably, Chuck Prophet’s brand of rustic rock ’n’ roll gets a bit of a makeover by the members of the Cumbia band ¿Qiensave? But let me reassure you — this is another gem of a Prophet album.

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Film Review: “The Pale Blue Eye” — A Gothic, and Poetic, Murder Mystery

January 7, 2023
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For viewers weary of horror that embraces the minimalist and dystopian, The Pale Blue Eye — chock-full of emotion, mystery, and romance from a bygone era — is a welcome sight indeed.

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Book Review: Daphne Kalotay’s “The Archivists” — Short Studies in Pervasive Loneliness

July 3, 2023
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Daphne Kalotay’s fresh eye for the outside world is paired with a sympathy for the inner world of her protagonists, which can feel helplessly pained at times.

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Music Commentary: The Streaming Cesspool

April 12, 2022
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When listeners outsource their listening to streaming organizations, as they commonly do, they are often directed to music that has been selected to fatten up someone’s bottom line, not to enrich and expand their musical lives.

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Classical Album Reviews: “Reflections: Scott Joplin Reconsidered” and New York Youth Symphony plays Price, Coleman, and Montgomery

March 18, 2022
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Two first-rate albums: pianist Lara Downes successfully reconsiders Scott Joplin and the New York Youth Symphony plays Florence Price and others with panache.

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WATCH CLOSELY: “True Detective” — Mysteries of Mind and Soul

February 19, 2019
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This season of True Detective explores the figure of the cop as a permanently haunted man.

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