Month: June 2014

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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Fuse Commentary: Happy Bloomsday! — A High Holy Day for Readers

June 16, 2014
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People complain about how no one takes literature seriously these days. Tell that to the millions of people who are participating in Bloomsday celebrations worldwide today.

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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 Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

June 15, 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.

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Film Review: The 40th Seattle Film Festival — American Indie Excellence

June 15, 2014
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Unlike Sundance, where “independent” has been stretched to allow for expensive non-studio movies with slumming Hollywood stars, the films we watched at Seattle were mostly low budget.

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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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