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Fuse Book Review: Too Square to “Bounce”

August 6, 2012
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Instead of painting the vibrant and colorful scene which is New Orleans, author Matt Miller supplies dry exposition about each event via a blow-by-blow chronological time line.

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Theater Review: A “Coriolanus” Cut Down to Size on the Boston Common

August 4, 2012
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Shakespeare’s “Coriolanus” deals with the difficultly of recognizing superiority at a time of radical social breakdown, specifically when it is democracy that is in extremis.

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Theater Review: “The Admirable Crichton” Entertains Via a Sprightly Stiff Upper Lip

August 4, 2012
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“The Admirable Crichton” premiered in 1902, but the Peterborough Players bring this comedy about class division off admirably — as classy theater, not anthropology.

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Fuse Theater Review: “Running” in The Wrong Direction

August 3, 2012
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Why did Chester Theatre Company’s Artistic Director Byam Stevens choose such a banal, lazily-written play with no drama, no development, barely any interesting language, and none of the wit, charm or whimsy I’ve come to associate with this stage company?

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Fuse Jazz CD Review: “Ten Freedom Summers” — Unconventional Swing

August 3, 2012
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Wadada Leo Smith’s album contains avant-garde music with a human face, intimate and appealing and beautifully played by a band of virtuosos.

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Theater Review: Wrestling With Art

August 3, 2012
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Ultimately the evening is NOT about wrestling. It’s about the root, the very nature of art. About the love of craft; about wanting and needing to create.

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Classical Music Sampler: August 2012

August 1, 2012
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August is a rich month for festival finales around New England.

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Fuse Theater Review: Dive into the “North Pool”

August 1, 2012
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Theatergoers will find Khadim a new character in the American theater: an entitled, cosmopolitan Middle Eastern teenager, born in Damascus to Iranian parents, who speaks Farsi, Arabic, French, and Italian in addition to English.

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Book Review: “Motherless Child” — The Redemptive Powers of Classical Music

July 31, 2012
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For anyone interested in classical music, “Motherless Child” is a novel to be savored. And there is no doubt that Zeitlin has gotten those details right. She is the widow of the great violinist and teacher, Zvi Zeitlin, who died this past May at 90.

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Theater Review: A “Tempest” With the Wedding Bell Blues

July 31, 2012
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Olympia Dukakis’ Prospera is no tough feminist deity commanding a tiny kingdom. She is at her best when she plays the character as a feisty, down-to-earth mother who wants the best for her daughter.

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