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Theater Review: “Primary Trust” — Dramatizing Acts of Random Kindness

September 20, 2025
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Playwright Eboni Booth won last year’s Pulitzer Prize for Drama for this script, and it is a heartwarming, well-constructed, one-act.

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Concert Preview: Cowboy Junkies — On This Tour, Looking Back With Pleasure

September 20, 2025
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Cowboy Junkies has simply been too busy to wallow in the past, which has meant a lot of great songs have been untouched in concert.

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Film Review: “HIM” — A Carpet Bombing of the Optic Nerve

September 19, 2025
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“HIM” works incredibly well as a Grotesque, and by that I mean the film takes the incipient, creepy ideologies of pro football and blows them up to terrifying and absurd proportions.

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Poetry Review: Askold Melnyczuk’s “The Venus of Odesa” — A Jukebox of One-Hit Wonders

September 19, 2025
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Of special interest is Askold Melnyczuk’s treatment of objects. His imagination transforms curios into uncanny artefacts.

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Theater Interview: “Investigating the New” — Actor/Director Vincent Murphy Reflects on Life and Theater

September 18, 2025
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What has made for a successful life in the theater? Living by the values Vincent Murphy imbibed as a member of Boston Children’s Theatre in the ’60s: “cooperation, creativity, listening, and play.”

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Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

September 18, 2025
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The week”s poem: January Gill O’Neil’s “America, What Dream Do You Dream?”

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Book Review: “Tech Agnostic” — Was the Creation of the Computer Chip our Original Sin?

September 18, 2025
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Although Greg Epstein’s analysis and critique of what he calls a tech religion are on target, his solutions for undoing its damage are bland, vague, and toothless.

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Book Review: “The Art and Life of Francesca Alexander” — One of a Kind

September 18, 2025
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An illuminating book about the 19th-century American artist Francesca Alexander, a Bostonian who shaped a very different life for herself and for her art.

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Jazz Concert Review: The McCoy Tyner Legacy Band — Nuances in the Torrent

September 17, 2025
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The McCoy Tyner Legacy Band, in a program called “Blues on the Corner” had it all: the unrelenting, all-enveloping power that was a hallmark of Coltrane’s bands, but also an attention to dynamics, detail, and, most important, melody.

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Concert Review: Alabama Shakes Levitates the MGM Music Hall at Fenway

September 17, 2025
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On this night, it was clear that Brittany Howard’s status as a force of nature came not from her bellowing vocals so much as the soulful subtleties she wove into high notes.

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