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Film Review: 2019 Oscar-nominated Best Documentary Shorts — Wrestling With Death

February 15, 2019
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It is safe to predict that the winner in this category will be one of the entries that squares off against mortality.

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Theater Review: “Mr Joy” — Empowerment Overload

September 28, 2015
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It is no longer enough for a playwright to go into the belly of the ‘beast’ and pray for help.

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Book Review: Samuel Delany’s Phallic Fun

February 7, 2005
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 Sci-fi master Samuel Delany’s latest novel is a mystery set in the ancient world. Phallos, by Samuel R. Delany. (Bamberger Books) By Vincent Czyz Samuel R. Delany is best known as “l’enfant terrible” who published his first novel at age 20 and then went on to win science fiction’s most prestigious awards — the Nebula…

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Theater Review: “The Grove” — Nurturing Ancestral Connections

February 23, 2025
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Revelatory reunions are a standard dramatic setup, which explains why it takes quite a while for “The Grove” to gather some theatrical steam.

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Rock and Book Review: New Visions of Metal, Heavy, Black, and Thrash

November 25, 2020
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“I think these shots bring out the fierceness of black metal, and the models are saying, ‘We can be this.’”

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Opera Review: “Dido and Aeneas” — A Memorable Evening of Purcell

April 1, 2019
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Handel and Haydn Society assembled both a must-hear program and an extraordinary cast of singers.

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Coming Attractions: September 11 through 27 — What Will Light Your Fire

September 11, 2022
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As the age of Covid-19 more or less wanes, Arts Fuse critics supply a guide to film, dance, visual art, theater, author readings, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.

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Book Review: “Leon Battista Alberti: The Chameleon’s Eye” — Not Your Classic Renaissance Man

January 23, 2023
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This splendid biography of Leon Battista Alberti, beautifully produced, with a rich selection of well-placed and well-reproduced illustrations, vividly portrays one of the most complex and fascinating figures in a complex and fascinating time, one whose preoccupations are entirely relevant today.

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Film Review: “Revoir Paris” — Remembrance of Trauma Past

July 3, 2023
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Despite the fragmented nature of the protagonist’s memories, everything comes together in Revoir Paris. It is as though her life was a puzzle to be solved.

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Theater Interview: Critical Truth Telling and Praxis Stage’s “Julius Caesar”

August 10, 2017
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Wonder why Boston theater is so bland, why there is so little political resistance?

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