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Theater Review: “Not What Happened” — Exploring History’s Vanishing Presence

June 21, 2013
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What Ain Gordon’s play demonstrates is that even when records are indecipherable and incomplete, we still have the right, and perhaps the responsibility, to imagine what happened.

Theater News: Toy Theatre —Tiny But Powerful

June 14, 2013
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Theatre buffs who delight in miniaturization will want to reserve seats for events at the Puppet Showplace in Brookline Village.

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

June 14, 2013
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Updated with new theater and classical music recommendations. Arts Fuse critics select some of the most promising in music, theater, and film for the coming week. A new feature!

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

June 6, 2013
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Arts Fuse critics select some of the most promising in music, theater, and film for the coming week. A new feature!

Theater Review: “Spank!: The Fifty Shades Parody” Packs Too Broad a Wallop

June 5, 2013
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“Fifty Shades of Grey”‘s infamous “red room of pain,” where Christian Grey keeps his S&M tools neat and clean, is never displayed, while none of the novel’s dominant-submissive sexual fetishes are exploited for sly laughs.

Theater News: James Bond Meets Hamlet, Hilariously

June 3, 2013
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“From Denmark with Love” is playwright John J. King’s amusing mash-up of Shakespeare’s Danish tragedy and Ian Fleming’s Secret Agent 007.

Stage Commentary: The Need for a Theater of Transformation

June 2, 2013
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Theater taught me how to draw parallels, to condense, to delete triviality and to recognize significance.

Theater Review: “Rapture, Blister, Burn” Snaps, Crackles, and Pops

June 1, 2013
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“Rapture, Blister, Burn” feels less like an exploration of feminism today than a clever sitcom pilot that won’t be able to sustain its jokes for an entire season.

Theater Review: A Political Refugee’s Tale — “Bashir Lazhar”

May 31, 2013
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Pittsfield’s Barrington Stage Company is now giving “Bashir Lazhar,” ably translated by playwright Morwyn Brebner, its American premiere and I admire the theater’s choice.

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

May 31, 2013
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Arts Fuse critics select some of the most promising in music, theater, and film for the coming week. A new feature!

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