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Fuse News: Arts and Culture Tips — What Will Light Your Fire This Week

July 11, 2013
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, theater, visual art, and film that’s coming up this week. A new feature!

Theater Review: “2 Pianos 4 Hands” — One Highly Amusing Evening

July 11, 2013
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Some of the jokes in “2 Pianos 4 Hands” reach fairly deep into an understanding of how classical music works and is taught; other jokes will be recognizable to anyone who has taken piano lessons or raised a child to do so.

Book/Theater Review: Vladimir Nabokov Does That Shakespeherian Rag

July 8, 2013
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Nabokov will become much more seriously playful about extinction and the nature of love in the increasingly complex fables to come. “The Tragedy of Mr. Morn” is his initial earnest fairy tale.

Fuse Theater Review: Hooray for Captain Spaulding and “Animal Crackers”!

June 29, 2013
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The Williamstown Theatre Festival’s captivating staging of “Animal Crackers” provides two hours of great fun and near-perfect summer theater for the entire family.

Fuse News: Arts and Culture Tips — What Will Light Your Fire This Week

June 27, 2013
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[Updated] Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, theater, and film that’s coming up this week. A new feature!

Theater Review: “Say Goodnight Gracie” — Comedic Comfort Food For Aging Palates

June 27, 2013
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“Say Goodnight Gracie” revels in familiarity and age. It travels on creaky wheels of recognition rather than on rockets of revelation.

Theater Review: “Muckrakers” — Too Close to the News

June 25, 2013
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In a novel spin on a very old theatrical situation, paranoia rather than lust drives the one-night stand in “Muckrakers.”

Fuse Theater Review: An Exhilarating “On the Town” in the Berkshires

June 23, 2013
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What fun!! I’m so glad to have seen “On the Town,” a hard-to-get-right musical in this lovely, lusty and lithe production.

Theater Review: “The Merchant of Venus” — Shakespeare, Politically Corrected

June 22, 2013
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This production of Shakespeare’s ‘The Merchant of Venice” tries to have it both ways: a show about intolerance, bigotry, and hatred is set in a ‘politically correct’ past.

Fuse News: Arts and Culture Tips — What Will Light Your Fire This Week

June 21, 2013
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[Updated]Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, theater, and film that’s coming up this week. A new feature!

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