Monday, June 10, 2019
Pacific Overtures offers a history lesson -- but it is an entertaining, moving, thought-provoking, and timely one.
The post Theater Review: “Pacific Overtures” — A Civilization on the …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:12AMThursday, January 31, 2019
Magos Herrera teamed up with the Brooklyn Rider string quartet to create a collection of music that makes its case for life, love, and liberation through its sheer beauty.
The post Jazz Albu…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:48PMMonday, November 5, 2018
Why this team up? Other than that both Luciana Souza and the Yellowjackets have been nominated for multiple Grammys?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:24AMMonday, October 29, 2018
The SpeakEasy Stage production is intimate and emotionally satisfying, highlighting the musical’s strengths -- its sharply witty book, memorable songs, and heartbreaking characters.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:12AMTuesday, September 4, 2018
With this album, Luciana Souza has created her own indelible “book,” of songs that ache and celebrate, muse and regret, dream and mourn.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:18AMTuesday, June 5, 2018
A delicious, comforting gumbo of a Wiz with all the right ingredients for an upbeat, entertaining evening (or afternoon) at the theater.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:04PMWednesday, May 30, 2018
In the end, Jagged Little Pill manages to spotlight multiple modern problems while making us care about its characters.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:24PMWednesday, February 14, 2018
Kate McGarry’s latest release is a gorgeous seminar on the many facets of love. Kate McGarry, Keith Ganz, Gary Versace, The Subject Tonight Is Love (Binxtown Records) By Evelyn Rosenthal T…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:25PMTuesday, January 23, 2018
Road Show is unlikely to top anyone’s list of Sondheim favorites, it’s an often entertaining take on a quintessentially American story.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:41AMTuesday, November 14, 2017
Toninho Horta’s musical signature is one of the most distinctive, with complex harmonies, subtle but masterful guitar work, and gentle, plaintive vocals outlining indelible melodies.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:54AMTuesday, January 10, 2017
“Music is to be shared, no matter what genre it is.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:24PMTuesday, November 1, 2016
The more we learn about Thomas' characters and their lives, the more we like them and root for them.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:48PMWednesday, September 21, 2016
The cherry on top of this terrific production is its stunning technical design, from lighting and sets to sound, projection, and costumes.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:54AMSunday, May 15, 2016
Director Paul Daigneault and SpeakEasy Stage have a hit on their hands
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:43AMSunday, January 24, 2016
Sondheim on Sondheim is an entertaining, moving, hilarious mixture of reminiscences and stories about Sondheim's life and a well-chosen sampler of musical numbers from 19 of his shows.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:37AMTuesday, January 19, 2016
Childs’s aim was to reimagine Nyro’s music. “I took what the songs meant to me and heightened that, illustrated it more, through the lens of my experience.”
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:39PMThursday, December 17, 2015
When she composes a song, she said, it’s her guitar, rather than her voice, that “chooses the key. The guitar is the boss.”
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:08PMThursday, December 10, 2015
Iconic second-generation bossa nova composer, singer, and guitarist Joyce Moreno's multiday residency at Berklee will be capped tonight by a concert featuring her music.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:43PMSaturday, November 7, 2015
What comes through clearly in Beautiful is the joy Carole King and the other writers took in putting together the songs that captured our hearts.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:13AMTuesday, September 22, 2015
The Huntington Theatre Company's magnificent production of Stephen Sondheim's masterpiece A Little Night Music is as good as it gets.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:16AMMonday, May 18, 2015
I’ve never seen Kurt Elling when he wasn’t in fine voice, and this show was no exception.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:21PMTuesday, April 7, 2015
The Lyric Stage Company's entertaining production of this Tony-winner for best musical, book, and score hits most of the right noirish notes.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:53PMWednesday, September 17, 2014
Leigh Barrett and her collaborators sing and act beautifully, and they are obviously having a great deal of fun performing Richard Maltby Jr. and David Shire’s heartfelt songs about the tr…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:56AMSaturday, September 13, 2014
To darken a story that already hinges on rape, murder, and cannibalism takes some doing, but the edgy Lyric Stage production pulls it off.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:35PMFriday, September 5, 2014
“Magic” reflects the Mendes touch—more than 50 years of expert piano, arranging, and production chops, and a genius for choosing the right collaborators.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:03PMThursday, May 22, 2014
The Lyric Stage Company’s thoroughly enjoyable production more than does "Into the Woods," Stephen Sondheim's un-Disneyfied version of fairy tales, justice.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:20AMMonday, February 17, 2014
"Music just comes, you know? You’re harvesting potatoes, and something happens and you have to put it immediately on paper.”
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:00PMThursday, January 16, 2014
The singing in the SpeakEasy Stage Company production is strong throughout; it’s easy to get caught up in the sheer pleasure of such a variety of voices.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:52AMTuesday, December 3, 2013
“I like singing live; I try to sing well live, I try to prepare myself for the audience, for that room. And I care a great deal about singing live, because I think that’s the experience …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:24PMWednesday, October 2, 2013
Mary Zimmerman’s Jungle Book may not have the same kind of compelling narrative and emotional depth as her Bernstein/Voltaire tour de force, but there’s plenty of magic in this Disney/Ki…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:13AMTuesday, May 28, 2013
Like the great immigrant musicals, "In the Heights" touches on the tension between old and new cultures and generations, finding home, families and their expectations.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:27AM 
