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A Doll’s House, Part 2 comes off as a return to the barn — after the door has fallen off its hinges.
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Read MoreCassandra Speaks is yet another dazzling vehicle for actor Tod Randolph, who excels in etching brilliant stage portraits of famous, complicated women.
Read MoreGiven the Russian writer’s modernist pedigree, should director/playwright Richard Nelson and translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky be punished for putting some “unevenesses” into their staging of Turgenev’s finest play, “A Month in the Country”? I think not.
Read MoreEditorial Staff Contact: info@artsfuse.org 617-718-0328 Bill Marx Editor-in-Chief Theater, Books, Film For well over two decades, Bill Marx has written about arts and culture for print, broadcast, and online. In 2002, Marx created and edited WBUR Online Arts, a cultural zine that, along with arts reviews and commentaries, presented multimedia features, blogs, a podcast, and…
Read MoreAs a long time arts critic for print, broadcast, and the Web, the potential for cultural coverage online strikes me then and now as exhilarating. The challenge for The Arts Fuse is to foster dialogue that articulates the value of the arts in our lives.
Read MoreArts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.
Read MoreEach month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
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Book Commentary: A Thousand Words for Paul West
Paul West’s goal is to expand consciousness through the uninhibited play of the imagination, to revel in the glory of words, not to preach lessons in civic do-gooding. And that anarchistic intensity has gotten him into trouble with those who mistakenly believe that exploring the mind of evil indicates approval.
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