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Fuse Theater Review: “M” and the Torment of Artistic Freedom

April 12, 2013
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But if a dramatist butchers everything – what will can be put in its place? In the case of “M” it is nothing; nothing I can see or understand.

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Fuse Film Review: The Clichés of “The Company You Keep”

April 11, 2013
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The serious intentions of “The Company You Keep” are ultimately undermined by the parade of stock cameos.

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Fuse News: Review — Caitlin Corbett Dance Company

April 11, 2013
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In her recent program at the Boston University Dance Theatre, Corbett riffed on the eerie, 1967 Diane Arbus photograph of identical twin girls in Roselle, New Jersey.

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Music Review: Bob Dylan at UMass-Lowell, Tsongas Center

April 11, 2013
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The emotional peak of the entire night was Bob Dylan’s gently understated performance of “What Good Am I?” from 1989’s Oh Mercy.

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Fuse News: Farewell, My Darling Annette

April 10, 2013
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No! No Annette. How unfair, the death of the fabulous Annette Funicello!

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Music Review: The Legendary Barbara Cook Comes to Town

April 9, 2013
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Barbara Cook’s gift is to illuminate a song’s words as a great actress would, while somehow having a beautiful voice at an age at which no opera singer could possibly imagine performing.

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Film Commentary — Roger Ebert: A Contrarian View

April 9, 2013
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What Roger Ebert was was a very hard-working, daily journalist who, as he should, watched thousands of movies and wrote about them in a very clear, concise, fairly interesting but obvious way.

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Theater Review: “By the Way, Meet Vera Stark” — Take Two

April 9, 2013
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“By the Way, Meet Vera Stark” suggests the dismissive attitude the public has toward African American actors, but the script doesn’t go far enough to make its title character three-dimensional.

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Book Review: Meet Mikhail Kuzmin —The Oscar Wilde of Russian Literature

April 8, 2013
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Poet Mikhail Kuzmin, born in the 1870s into a family of Russian Old Believers, was a passionate exponent of gay literature in the early twentieth century.

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Dance/Music Review: See Dave Lead — Jazz Composers Alliance Orchestra

April 8, 2013
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You have to appreciate a guy who expressed his concern for both the drought on the Texas plains and the local arts community’s drought in terms of cancelled jazz programming on WGBH and the closing of the BOSTON PHOENIX.

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