Review

Fuse Concert Review: A Fun Visit to the ’70s Classic-Rock Zone

June 21, 2014
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Classic rock (which is really a radio format, not a musical genre) is a strange animal, which has spawned an audience that apparently cares more about hit songs and memories than about who’s actually onstage.

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Music Review: Rufus Wainwright’s Open Heart

June 20, 2014
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Rufus Wainwright is like that: unfiltered family love and dysfunction threaded through whammo pop tunes wrapped in the sequins of more than a little clear-to-those-who-know celebrity.

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Television Review: “Louie” at Season Four — Art House TV

June 19, 2014
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Louie is a difficult show to advertise because it is the only example of art-television at the moment.

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Theater Review: “Cassandra Speaks” — The Voice of a Crusading Journalist

June 17, 2014
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Cassandra Speaks is yet another dazzling vehicle for actor Tod Randolph, who excels in etching brilliant stage portraits of famous, complicated women.

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Visual Arts Review: “9 Artists” at MIT — Alienation, Resignation, and Despair Made Stimulating

June 17, 2014
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After repeated visits (and you will need several to even scratch this dense content), 9 Artists begins to hang together in satisfying ways.

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Film Review: “Ida” — A Masterful Meditation on Fate and Circumstance

June 16, 2014
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Ida proffers a cinematic experience that is austere and mesmerizing.

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Theater Review: “Apt. 4D” — Beau Jest’s Sly, Comic Ode to Film Noir

June 15, 2014
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Beau Jest’s playful Apt 4D offers a wonderful opportunity to celebrate the creativity and imagination of the truly extraordinary theater troupe.

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Fuse Rock Concert Review: Widespread Panic Hits a Collective Groove

June 15, 2014
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Even by Widespread Panic’s intuitive standards, this was a fairly challenging show: The setlist seemed to favor their deeper, less outgoing material.

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Book Review: “Living in the Meantime” — Too Ambitious for its Own Good

June 15, 2014
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Richard Barnett is familiar with the wide variety of characters that can be found in the American South, and fond of the cadences of their speech—so much so that these preoccupations become a burden.

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Fuse Book Review: The O’Neill and the Transformation of Modern American Theater — Personality and Process

June 14, 2014
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In this book, personality trumps process, although The Eugene O’Neill’s Theater Center’s purpose is, at its source, process.

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