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Concert Review: Newport Folk Festival 2021 — A Very Nontraditional Year

July 30, 2021
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Folk On both exceeded and tempered expectations.

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Coming Attractions: January 26 through February 11– What Will Light Your Fire

January 26, 2020
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.

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Book Review: “The Year of the Comet” — Surviving History

February 22, 2017
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This is the work of an extremely talented writer whose prose is spare and exact and has an authenticity that marks him as the real thing.

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Dance Review: …And Farewell — Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet

May 18, 2015
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Contemporary dance has no useful definition; maybe we could think of it as an attitude, a constantly changing venture.

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Theater Review: Down Chekhovian Way

April 28, 2011
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A Chekhovian dramatic fabric calls for a tough/tender gift for realism. Getting the balance right is tricky — too much reassurance veers toward easy sentimentality, while excessive punishment pushes the proceedings toward soap opera.

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Theater Review: “Waitress” the Musical — An Enjoyable Slice of Down-Home Self-Discovery

August 23, 2015
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A few quibbles aside, the musical Waitress plays and sounds like it’s close to ready for the Broadway big time.

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Dance Review: Classical, Three Ways, at Boston Ballet

May 10, 2017
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All of three of these ballets adapted the classical vocabulary and demonstrated that constant evolution is what keeps classicism alive.

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Book Review: Art Critic Peter Schjeldahl — Connecting Readers to the World in a New Way

May 22, 2020
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Good essays about art help us learn to see. Wonderful essays about the artists in our lives — which means all the artists through history, because, as Peter Schjeldahl so eloquently puts it, “all art is contemporary” —- help us learn how to live.

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Coming Attractions: September 19 through October 5 — What Will Light Your Fire

September 19, 2021
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As the age of COVID-19 wanes (or waxes?), Arts Fuse critics supply a guide to film, dance, visual art, theater, and music. Please check with venues about whether the event is available by streaming or is in person. More offerings will be added as they come in.

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Coming Attractions: August 8 through 24 — What Will Light Your Fire

August 8, 2021
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As the age of COVID-19 wanes (and waxes?), Arts Fuse critics supply a guide to film, dance, visual art, theater, and music. Please check with venues about whether the event is available by streaming or is in person. More offerings will be added as they come in.

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