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Theater Review: “Working on a Special Day” — A Very Unusual Show

June 23, 2014
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Working on a Special Day is an unusual show in every way, and I was thrilled to have had the opportunity to see it.

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Book Review: Samuel Beckett’s “Echo’s Bones” — Anticipation of Masterpieces to Come

June 23, 2014
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Echo’s Bones is a fascinating immersion, somewhat inept in its means, but sincere and gravely serious, in a subject that Samuel Beckett made increasingly his own.

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Dance Feature: Wonder X 2

June 23, 2014
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In red gloves and dark glasses, popping and locking, the Wondertwins are both imposing humans and robotic objects, organic and mechanical reproduction.

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Author Interview: Welcome to the “Mad World” of New Wave Music of the 1980s

June 22, 2014
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“It was an unusual time in music when the-powers-that-be were very hands-off. They left the art to the artists.”

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Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

June 22, 2014
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, film, theater, visual arts, author readings, and dance that’s coming up in the next week.

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Film Review: “WHITEY” — Rat or Robin Hood? Whitey in his Own Words

June 22, 2014
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By the end of the documentary, you’re in no doubt that Whitey Bulger was beneath dignity. Though not in his own eyes. There’s even vanity left in a crook who trims his white beard so scrupulously.

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Fuse Concert Review: A Fun Visit to the ’70s Classic-Rock Zone

June 21, 2014
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Classic rock (which is really a radio format, not a musical genre) is a strange animal, which has spawned an audience that apparently cares more about hit songs and memories than about who’s actually onstage.

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Opera Review: Odyssey Opera’s “Un giorno di regno” — A Delightful Confection

June 20, 2014
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May Odyssey Opera continue gracing Boston’s opera scene for seasons to come with such delightful performances as this.

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Music Review: Rufus Wainwright’s Open Heart

June 20, 2014
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Rufus Wainwright is like that: unfiltered family love and dysfunction threaded through whammo pop tunes wrapped in the sequins of more than a little clear-to-those-who-know celebrity.

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Jazz Commemoration and Comment: Horace Silver, 1928 – 2014

June 19, 2014
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He knew what he wanted to do, he did it, and he took millions along for the ride.

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