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Theater Review: The Lyric Stage Company is not “Afraid of Virginia Woolf”

January 30, 2017
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Edward Albee’s bitter masterwork is a tough nut for a company to crack as well as a hard play to watch.

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Film Review: “The Executioner” — Death Be Not Pedestrian

January 30, 2017
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Director Luis García Berlanga entertainingly but ruthlessly lampoons the cruelties and absurdities of Spanish life under dictatorship.

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Coming Attractions: February 5 through 14 — What Will Light Your Fire

January 29, 2017
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in theater, film, music, author events, and dance for the coming weeks.

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Visual Arts Interview: Doug Weathersby — Making Art Out of Work

January 28, 2017
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Among other things, we talked about the art world’s massive hoarding problem.

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Film Review: “Hidden Figures” — Finger Painting by the Numbers

January 27, 2017
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All of these stories are powerful… if only they were treated with dramatic complexity.

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Theater Review” “Intimate Exchanges” — Semi-furious Comic Froth

January 26, 2017
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It’s good fun and, for a while at least, it’s interesting to watch the actors fulfill the play’s impish demands.

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The Arts on the Stamps of the World — January 26

January 26, 2017
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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

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Theater Review: Mad Horse Theatre’s “The Nether” — Through a Glass, Darkly

January 25, 2017
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Jennifer Haley’s play is compelling and timely because it forces us to face facts, actual and alternative.

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Film Review: “Dead of Winter” — Horror and the Art of Living Deliciously

January 24, 2017
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One of the lessons of the Dead of Winter series at the Brattle Theatre:”The occult is one of many tickets to the revolution.”

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Film Review: “Paterson” — A Very Ordinary Visionary

January 23, 2017
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Paterson is a movie about how ordinary it may be to see the world in a grain of sand.

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