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Coming Attractions: June 26 through July 5— What Will Light Your Fire This Week

June 26, 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.

Film Review: “Tickled” — It’s Funny Until it Happens to You

June 24, 2016
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I can’t quite believe I’m cautioning viewers about the troubling nature of a documentary about tickling.

Theater Review: “Driving Miss Daisy” — Bypassing the Deeper Resonance

June 24, 2016
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This production of Driving Miss Daisy isn’t about conflict and irresolution, but sentimental reassurance.

Fuse Film Review: “The Neon Demon” — It Was Beauty that Killed the Beast

June 23, 2016
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Director Nicholas Winding Refn has turned the dark side of modeling into a horror film, one that will no doubt generate plenty of controversy.

Fuse Theater Review: “Blinders” — Choppy Political Satire

June 23, 2016
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Patrick Gabridge’s political satire presents some intriguing sci-fi-like concepts, but the play falls into too many narrative potholes.

Book Review: The Librarians of Timbuktu — Action Heroes for Cultural Preservation

June 23, 2016
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Former Newsweek bureau chief Joshua Hammer has documented a timely story of cultural heroism.

Theater Review: Bedlam’s Transfixing, Twinned Twelfth Nights

June 23, 2016
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There is nothing quite so exhilarating as watching Shakespeare done right – except, perhaps, watching one of his plays done right, twice.

Fuse Dance Review: Birds in the Hands — “The Firebird”

June 21, 2016
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The coincidence of two Firebirds in one weekend suggested a Compare-and-Contrast exercise.

Theater Review: “Wild Williams” — Wildly Imaginative

June 21, 2016
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Wild Williams is a marvelous antidote for the formulaic.

Concert Review: Chameleon Arts Ensemble Pay Glorious Respect to Father and Sons —

June 21, 2016
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It doesn’t get much better for father and sons than when these virtuosos give their superb all for the Bach clan..

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