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Classical Music CD Reviews: Vadym Kholodenko plays Grieg and Saint-Saëns and Javier Perianes plays Grieg

August 28, 2015
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Javier Perianes is a musician of sweeping, Romantic sensibilities, eager to take a stand, and the result is a triumphant recording

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Theater Review: Shakespeare & Company’s Delightfully Loony “Emperor of The Moon”

July 30, 2016
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The Emperor of the Moon is a boisterous bit of family friendly late-afternoon entertainment under Shakespeare & Company’s Rose Footprint Tent.

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Film Review: “The Fallen Idol” — Through the Eyes of a Child

June 10, 2016
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The Fallen Idol is one of the best achieved examples in cinema of seeing the world through the eyes of a child.

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Classical CD Review: Great Performances — “Under Stalin’s Shadow,” vol. 2 (Deutsche Grammophon)

May 27, 2016
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That Shostakovich left such a musical testament is, in its own way, miraculous; and it continues to speak to us with immediacy and power.

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Theater Interview: Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival’s David Kaplan on “Last Call: The Final Fall Festival”

September 2, 2025
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“For this season, I did not want us to do a ‘greatest hits.’ I did not want to limp away. This is our last full and robust season, but not our last time producing plays.”

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Fuse Theater Review: Liars & Believers’ “Interference” is “Guernica” for Hipsters

February 24, 2014
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The 64,000 question is, if the artists’ concerns gravitated to the Marathon Bombings, why did “Interference”‘s press releases and the program cite Picasso’s “Guernica”?

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Theater Commentary: Sampling Metro D.C. Stages at ATCA08

July 9, 2008
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By Caldwell Titcomb The American Theatre Critics Association, which moves around the country for its annual convention, this year spent a recent week in the nation’s capital and environs. The area houses 75 theatres – 43 in the District of Columbia, 17 in nearby Maryland, and 15 in the contiguous portion of Virginia. From the…

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December Short Fuses – Materia Critica

December 5, 2021
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

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Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

June 22, 2014
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, film, theater, visual arts, author readings, and dance that’s coming up in the next week.

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Concert Review: The Mercury Orchestra Goes Down Memory Lane

August 10, 2025
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The Mercury Orchestra explored nostalgia, via performances of rare Finzi and familiar Respighi compositions.

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