Month: September 2016

Film Review: “Eight Days a Week” — A Marvelous Look at The Beatles on Tour

September 12, 2016
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Unlike any other Beatles documentary, this one succeeds in presenting the hysteria of the few years when the band played live and toured the world.

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Theater Review: Hotsy Totsy Burlesque’s “Doctor Who” and “Alpha 66”

September 12, 2016
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Cyndi Freeman and Brad Lawrence are accomplishing their mission: to bring the lowbrow entertainment of yesterday to the highbrow viewers of today.

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Music Interview: Feeling out “The Feelies”

September 12, 2016
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Four nerdy young men from small-town suburban New Jersey named their band after a prophetic product of Aldous Huxley’s imagination.

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Fuse Coming Attractions: September 18 through 27 — What Will Light Your Fire

September 11, 2016
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in theater, visual arts, film, music, author events, and dance for the coming week.

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Film Review: “Sully” — A Solid Shot of American Heroism

September 9, 2016
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I was never bored during Sully‘s brisk 90 minutes.

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Music Interview: Preview/Interview with Gil Rose on Odyssey Opera’s “Dmitrij”

September 9, 2016
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“Would I love to do these big operas in Symphony Hall? Yes. When I feel like I’ve got two-thousand people to attend, I’ll move over to Symphony Hall.”

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Theater Review: Bread & Puppet’s “Whatforward Circus” — Agit-Prop, But Imaginative

September 8, 2016
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Bread & Puppet Theater’s world of anthropomorphized trees and talking toilets is often funny, sometimes beautiful, and always memorable.

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Theater Review: “Autumn Stage” — Being and Plenty of Nothingness

September 8, 2016
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By the end, Autumn Stage comes off as a pint-sized No Exit.

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Theater Review: “Blasted” — A Splendidly Visceral Wake-up Call

September 7, 2016
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There is little doubt in my mind that this powerful production of Blasted will be one of the high points in Boston theater this year.

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Book Review: Dangerous Delusional Illusions — “A Cage in Search of a Bird”

September 7, 2016
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An absorbing and disturbing novel that explores the dangerous turns that erotomania can take.

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