"Slam Frank" is a satirical entertainment that imagines a progressive regional theater company remaking "The Diary of Anne Frank" as an intersectional, genderqueer, Afro-Latin hip-hop musical.
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@theartsfuse.bsky.social@theartsfuse.bsky.socialRoberta Silman offers a compelling appreciation of #fscottfitzgerald's most personal novel, "Tender is the Night," in which a marriage’s collapse becomes a searching exploration of love, ambition, and the courage to begin again.
@theartsfuse.bsky.socialThe Boston dance community is reeling. Debra Cash pays homage to Jeremy Alliger, founder of Dance Umbrella Boston. He helped create the National Performance Network and went on to develop a series of international dance projects under the banner of Alliger Arts.
@theartsfuse.bsky.socialPeg Aloi on "Carrie," Mike Flanagan’s ambitious TV series update of #stephenking’s classic horror tale pairs a superb cast with social media cruelty and an expanding supernatural world that sometimes overwhelms the story.
@theartsfuse.bsky.socialIn the taut Southern Gothic thriller "Covenant" (at the SpeakEasyStage Company) writes Susan Saccoccia, thwarted longing and the promise of escape turn a Georgia household into a cauldron of suspicion.
@theartsfuse.bsky.socialAt New York’s Art Students League, writes David D'Arcy, Robert Cenedella’s grotesque group portrait "Immigrants Are Poisoning the Blood of America" turns the #MAGA elite into a gathering of horned grotesques.
@theartsfuse.bsky.socialThis week’s poem: Whit Griffin’s from “Parting Gifts."
@theartsfuse.bsky.social@pkeough1.bsky.social on “Never After Dark”: Dave Boyle’s atmospheric ghost story raises intriguing questions about sisterhood and the afterlife, then buries them beneath slasher-film carnage.
@theartsfuse.bsky.socialScott McLennan talks to @donwas.bsky.social -- Blue Note Records president, producer, and bassist -- about leading his Pan-Detroit Ensemble through original material and a tribute to the Grateful Dead’s "Blues for Allah" at The Sinclair and Groton Hill Music Center.
@theartsfuse.bsky.socialNeil Giordano on "The Social Reckoning": Mikey Madison shines as whistleblower #FrancesHaugen, but #AaronSorkin’s Facebook drama preaches more than it provokes.
@theartsfuse.bsky.socialThe newsletter has links to a biography of John Berger, an exhibition on the biblical story of Esther, and a commentary on how hedge-fund logic is remaking the arts. My editorial argues that escapism is not dissent, though some would like us to think so.
@theartsfuse.bsky.socialRalph P. Locke on 1887's "Morgiane" A spirited recording by the OperaCréole Ensemble and Opera Lafayette, led by two outstanding sopranos, makes a persuasive case for the earliest surviving opera by a Black American composer—and for its long-neglected creator.
@theartsfuse.bsky.socialCyrisse Jaffee on a trio of new children’s books that explore different aspects of fall—starting school, understanding yourself, and Indigenous storytelling.
@theartsfuse.bsky.socialStillz’s memorable film #BarrioTriste, writes @callinamagician.bsky.social, transforms the dangers of life in Medellín into a haunting journey through cosmic horror, media distrust, and adolescent fear.
@theartsfuse.bsky.socialFor Bill Littlefield, Tom McCarthy's "The Rhyl Poster" (@nyrb-imprints.bsky.social) is a high-style legal conspiracy novel whose linguistic virtuosity can be both seductive and wearying.
@theartsfuse.bsky.socialThe @iffboston.bsky.social's Fall Focus: Across two October weekends at the Brattle Theatre (October 8 through November 4), this expanded 27-film series offers Boston audiences early looks at new work by #martinmcdonagh, #PedroAlmodóvar, and more
@theartsfuse.bsky.socialJonathan Blumhofer writes that ECM Records NewSeries’ reissue of composer #stevereich's seminal early recordings restores their bite, rigor, and uncommon spiritual warmth.
@theartsfuse.bsky.social@michaellondra.bsky.social on a monumental new gathering of the poetry of #SeamusHeaney: the Nobel laureate’s verse—of rural labor, private grief, history, and divided Northern Ireland—remains a moral force in a newly fraught moment. @fsgbooks.bsky.social
@theartsfuse.bsky.socialFor poet Mark Pawlak, a working-class kid from Buffalo who once saw museums as places for other people, a lifetime among Cambridge and Boston collections became an education in class, access, exclusion, and the complicated act of looking.
@theartsfuse.bsky.socialIn his novel "The Disciple: A Wagnerian Tale of the Gilded Age," the cultural historian and novelist Joseph Horowitz resurrects Wagner’s American apostle Anton Seidl—and a progressive, populist musical culture that New York has largely forgotten.