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Theater Commentary: The Boston Theater Critics Association — Finally Reached a Conclusion?

June 1, 2020
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The Boston Theater Critics Association should take action in support of #MeToo. But this will probably be the last year I request that Israel Horovitz’s Elliot Norton Prize be withdrawn.

Television Commentary: Unreeling the Newsreels in “The Plot Against America”

May 28, 2020
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Was this alternate history lesson too much of a downer for viewers weighed down by the burdens of their own unexpected rendezvous with history?

Book Interview: Zena Hitz on the Pleasures and Values of the Intellectual Life

May 28, 2020
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“We’re at the end, or toward the end, of an extended collapse of the institutions that made it possible for many of us to make a living through intellectual or creative activity. We’ll have to find another way.”

Theater Commentary: Why Are America’s Stages Afraid of Dealing with the Climate Crisis?

May 20, 2020
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Those who survive the climate crisis will regard American theater’s current indifference with incredulity and disgust.

Arts Remembrance: Lynn Shelton, Rising Star of Independent Film

May 20, 2020
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Lynn Shelton had developed what was becoming her own distinctive blend of comedy and drama, one that drew on strong writing, improvisation, and women characters.

Children’s Book Feature: Worried about Home Schooling? Relax — and Read

May 14, 2020
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Even though options for parents abound, the very best option remains the simplest — pick up a book, snuggle up, and read.

Visual Arts Commentary: Life After Lockdown — Designs for Future Living After COVID-19

May 13, 2020
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These products are imaginative clues to what our ‘new normal’ future will be like.

THE ARTS FUSE TURNS 13! — Our Spring Appeal

May 13, 2020
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During this crisis, please help sustain this independent magazine’s commitment to keeping our arts and culture vibrant and alive.

Arts Remembrance: Darick Campbell — Quiet Giant of the Sacred Steel Guitar

May 12, 2020
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Darick Campbell was one of the Campbell Brothers, the Rochester-based group whose emergence on the roots music circuit in the late ’90s played a major role in the mainstream discovery of the sound known as “sacred steel.”

Arts Appreciation: Howells in the Dark — William Dean, We Still Hardly Know Ye

May 11, 2020
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A hundred years ago today one of the most influential writers and editors in American history, William Dean Howells, died in Manhattan at the age of 83.

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