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Music Interview: Feeling out “The Feelies”

September 12, 2016
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Four nerdy young men from small-town suburban New Jersey named their band after a prophetic product of Aldous Huxley’s imagination.

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Fuse Coming Attractions: September 18 through 27 — What Will Light Your Fire

September 11, 2016
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in theater, visual arts, film, music, author events, and dance for the coming week.

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Film Review: “Sully” — A Solid Shot of American Heroism

September 9, 2016
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I was never bored during Sully‘s brisk 90 minutes.

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Music Interview: Preview/Interview with Gil Rose on Odyssey Opera’s “Dmitrij”

September 9, 2016
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“Would I love to do these big operas in Symphony Hall? Yes. When I feel like I’ve got two-thousand people to attend, I’ll move over to Symphony Hall.”

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Theater Review: Bread & Puppet’s “Whatforward Circus” — Agit-Prop, But Imaginative

September 8, 2016
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Bread & Puppet Theater’s world of anthropomorphized trees and talking toilets is often funny, sometimes beautiful, and always memorable.

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Theater Review: “Autumn Stage” — Being and Plenty of Nothingness

September 8, 2016
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By the end, Autumn Stage comes off as a pint-sized No Exit.

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Theater Review: “Blasted” — A Splendidly Visceral Wake-up Call

September 7, 2016
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There is little doubt in my mind that this powerful production of Blasted will be one of the high points in Boston theater this year.

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Book Review: Dangerous Delusional Illusions — “A Cage in Search of a Bird”

September 7, 2016
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An absorbing and disturbing novel that explores the dangerous turns that erotomania can take.

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Fuse News: The Nieman Foundation Celebrates the Centennial of the Pulitzer Prize – No Kudos for Critics

September 6, 2016
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The hope is that nobody will notice that arts criticism hasn’t been invited to the Pulitzer Prize’s centennial party.

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Fuse Theater Review: “Company” — What We Sing About When We Sing About Love

September 5, 2016
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There’s a lot of love in the Lyric Stage Company’s production of Stephen Sondheim’s 1970 Tony Award winning show, Company.

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