Month: January 2016

Fuse Theater Review: “Via Dolorosa” — An Innocent Abroad in Israel

January 10, 2016
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Via Dolorosa would have been more effective if it had taken the form of a travel essay rather than a performance piece.

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Fuse Coming Attractions: January 10 through 19 —What Will Light Your Fire This Week

January 10, 2016
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, theater, dance, music, visual arts, and author events for the coming week.

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Classical Music Commentary: 2016 Orchestral Winter/Spring Season Preview

January 10, 2016
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The upcoming season is a remarkably robust one in terms of the variety of offerings and the quality (and number) of participating ensembles.

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Film Review: “The Revenant” — Where Have You Gone, Sam Peckinpah?

January 9, 2016
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The implausibility of The Revenant is jaw-dropping.

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Classical Music Commentary: “Boulez est mort”

January 8, 2016
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And yet, for all the violence of his youthful polemics and his unflinchingly-held beliefs, Pierre Boulez was neither demagogue nor ideologue.

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Poetry Review: Two Chapbooks from Anton Yakovlev — Urban Alienation, Perfectly Pitched

January 7, 2016
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Yakovlev’s poems speak to the reader quietly, with assumed familiarity.

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Film Review: “Mustang” — Passion, Caged

January 6, 2016
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Despite being entrapped in a controlling social order, the sisters behave as most adolescents do: sometimes impulsively.

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Fuse Feature: The Zeitgeist in Film — 2015

January 5, 2016
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Here’s one more wrap-up of the year in film.

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Fuse Feature: Best Live Music Shows of 2015 — As Well as Some Disappointments

January 5, 2016
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The magazine’s Roots and World Music critic looks back at a year of live performances: here are the winners and a few losers.

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Film Review: Hell is the Nervous Laughter of Tom Noonan — Charlie Kaufman’s Inscrutable “Anomalisa”

January 4, 2016
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Charlie Kaufman crafts worlds where people find love in unlikely places, and lose love so easily you’d think they actually want to be miserable.

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