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Theater Feature: Savyon Liebrecht — In Residence at Israeli Stage With Two Plays About Freud and his Family

April 13, 2014
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Dramatist Savyon Liebrecht was recently in the Boston area for a residency with Israeli Stage — two of her scripts, both dealing with Freud and his legacy, received their world premieres here as workshop productions.

Film Review: “In Bloom” — Girls, Guys, and a Gun

April 13, 2014
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“In Bloom” is one of the best features to come out of Eastern Europe in recent times.

Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

April 13, 2014
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, film, theater, visual arts, author readings, and dance that’s coming up in the next week.

Dance Review: “The Shape She Makes” — A Complex, Eloquent Hybrid of Dance and Theater

April 12, 2014
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“The Shape She Makes” proffers an eloquent fusion of language and movement that pushes the boundaries of dance and theater without embracing the opaqueness that marks so many experimental productions.

CD Reviews: BMOP plays Babbitt and Antheil (BMOP/Sound), and Chris Wild’s Abhanden (Navona Records)

April 11, 2014
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Snappy new recordings of the music of Milton Babbitt and George Antheil from the Boston Modern Orchestra Project while cellist Christ Wild’s disc offers a fascinating journey through some richly diverse musical soundscapes.

Film Feature: Barbara Stanwyck – On Page and On Screen, “The Most Modern of the Great Movie Stars”

April 11, 2014
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It has the makings of a Barbara Stanwyck boomlet: Victoria Wilson visited Boston to talk about the first volume of her major biography of the star, and the actress can be seen on-screen at the Harvard Film Archive.

Fuse Music Interview: The “Grease” guy –The Bo-Keys and John Nemeth bring the Memphis Sound to Town

April 11, 2014
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Scott Bomar’s multi-generational band The Bo-Keys has almost single-handedly kept the soul tradition of the Stax and Hi labels alive.

Film Review: “The Unknown Known” — As Insanely Entertaining as a Mad Hatter Tea Party.

April 11, 2014
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My first thought: filming Donald Rumsfeld can only be rationalized if it’s a front for a citizen’s arrest.

Theater Review: “Nalaga’at” (Please Touch) — A Daring Dramatic Struggle Against Absence

April 10, 2014
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Theater is a public art. And yet, the irony here is that the most profound communication between individuals can be the least publicly communicable.

Film Commentary: Wes Anderson, Stefan Zweig, and Discovering the Value of “The World of Yesterday”

April 10, 2014
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Perhaps a movie such as “The Grand Budapest Hotel, which is much more than a zany comedy, can lead us back, as director Wes Anderson may have intended, to the fabulous writing of Stefan Zweig.

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