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Coming Attractions: October 11 Through 25 — What Will Light Your Fire

October 11, 2026
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Our expert critics supply a guide to film, visual art, theater, author readings, television, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.

Theater Review: “Slam Frank” – Nobody Is Safe. And That’s the Point

October 11, 2026
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A satirical musical that offends everyone equally hides its real argument until the final minutes.

Book Review: “Tender Is the Night” — F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Novel of Compassion and Sacrifice

October 11, 2026
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An appreciation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s most personal novel, in which a marriage’s collapse becomes a searching exploration of love, ambition, and the courage to begin again.

Watch Closely: “Carrie” Comes of Age—and Gets Complicated

October 10, 2026
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Mike Flanagan’s ambitious update of Stephen King’s classic pairs a superb cast with social media cruelty and an expanding supernatural world that sometimes overwhelms the story.

Arts Remembrance: Jeremy Alliger — A Complicated Visionary Who Put Dance First

October 10, 2026
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The Boston dance community is reeling.

Theater Review: In SpeakEasy’s “Covenant,” the Devil Is in the Desires

October 8, 2026
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Dawn M. Simmons directs a taut Southern Gothic thriller in which thwarted longing and the promise of escape turn a Georgia household into a cauldron of suspicion.

Visual Arts Review: The Art Bastard Returns — With Trump and Company in Hell

October 8, 2026
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At New York’s Art Students League, Robert Cenedella’s grotesque group portrait turns the MAGA elite into a gathering of horned grotesques.

Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

October 8, 2026
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This week’s poem: Whit Griffin’s from “Parting Gifts”

Concert Preview: Don Was Brings Pan-Detroit Groove to Cambridge and Groton

October 8, 2026
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The Blue Note Records president, producer, and bassist leads his Pan-Detroit Ensemble through original material and a freewheeling tribute to the Grateful Dead’s Blues for Allah at the Sinclair and Groton Hill Music Center.

Film Review: “The Social Reckoning” — The Gospel According to Sorkin

October 8, 2026
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Mikey Madison shines as whistleblower Frances Haugen, but Aaron Sorkin’s Facebook drama preaches more than it provokes.

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