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Fuse Theater Review: “Ghost Quartet” — Bang the Drum Slowly

September 10, 2015
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The things that go bump in the night are a pretty gooey lot in Ghost Quartet.

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Theater Review: From Page to Stage — Shakespeare’s “The Rape of Lucrece”

September 10, 2015
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Dan Hodge turns two hundred and fifty stanzas of Shakespeare’s rhyme royal into the stuff of a high-class poetry slam.

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Book Review: Dystopia as Our Future — Antoine Volodine’s “Post-Exotic” Oeuvre

September 8, 2015
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Antoine Volodine is a master of the prolonged, very prolonged, tongue-in-cheek spoof. But he is also dead serious.

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Book Review: Two From Andreï Makine — A Matter of Trust

September 8, 2015
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Makine may be plagiarizing himself, which is a perfectly legitimate thing for a writer to do, but scenes of spring snow and railroad stations become clichés even in talented hands.

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Theater Review: A ‘Loverly’ “My Fair Lady” From the Lyric Stage

September 7, 2015
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Simplicity is the key to director Scott Edmiston’s passionate vision for this musical.

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Fuse Theater Review: “Informed Consent” — Science, Ethics, and Racing Against the Clock

September 5, 2015
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Playwright Deborah Zoe Laufer has done a marvelous job of blending weighty ideas into a very human context.

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Theater Review: A.R. Gurney’s “Love and Money” — Aging White Bread Blues

September 3, 2015
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Love and Money is a short play, lengthened beyond one-act duration by stuffing a Cole Porter interlude into its middle.’

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World Music CD Review: Globetrotting Musician Stephan Micus — “Smartly Sublime”

September 3, 2015
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Claims that Stephan Micus erases international boundaries and makes one-world music get it backward. You visit his world on his records.

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Book Review: An Exhilarating Poetry Trek Through Europe

August 31, 2015
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John Taylor introduces readers to an amazing array of sensibilities and life histories in a babel of languages from an atlas of nations.

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Fuse Theater Review: “The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey” — Shine On

August 30, 2015
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James Lecesne’s one-man show delivers just what it promises….a lot of laughs and a few tears as well.

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