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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.
Ken Ludwig’s stage version of Murder on the Orient Express is an enjoyable diversion.
Terry Tempest Williams thinks that we must seize opportunities to save an increasingly endangered world — we don’t have a choice to feel powerless against the forces that seek to exploit and destroy the beauty of life on this planet.
Octavio Solis’ Quixote Nuevo, is a genial, and very American, riff on Don Quixote.
“People love a story, they always have, and always will, and stories are an essential ingredient in this folk music revival, which started sometime in the early ’50s.”
The Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra’s first appearance of the season presented canonical selections without a hint of complacency or apathy.
The Brit-born iteration of mind-expansion music — from Syd Barrett onward — favors clever wordplay and musical accessibility.
Waves is a plea for mutual understanding, for acts of grace that transcend race, age, gender, and social status.
Let the unimaginative people diddle around with their baseball cards and stamp collections. This is the kind of irrational, eccentric passion that you will be remembered for.
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