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Music Feature: Harmonica Man Takes to the Gospel Highway

October 12, 2013
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Tomorrow night Deacon Leslie Pittman, an emerging star on the gospel quartet circuit at the age of 81, comes into town with Philadelphia’s Just Us Singers.

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Theater Review: “King Lear” — Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Monumental Achievement

October 11, 2013
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Director Bill Rauch’s concept and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival company have, in a small space, created an achievement of monumental, yet personal, proportion.

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Theater Review Diary: The Oregon Shakespeare Festival — A Worthy Theatrical Adventure

October 11, 2013
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The Oregon Shakespeare Festival is an annual theatrical adventure for many on the West coast, and should become one for the rest of the country – but make reservations early.

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Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

October 11, 2013
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Updated. Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, dance, and film that’s coming up this week.

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Book Review: In Pitigrilli’s Intoxicating “Cocaine,” Love is the Drug

October 10, 2013
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Cocaine’s bleak and brilliant satire, lush and intoxicating prose, and sadistic playfulness remain as fresh and caustic as they were nine decades ago.

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Theater Review: “Million Dollar Quartet” — An Infectious Evening for Aging Baby Boomers

October 10, 2013
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The audience, mostly gray-haired seniors and aging baby boomers, walked out with smiles on their faces, as did I.

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Fuse Theater Review: Two New Musicals Hit Broadway — “Big Fish” and “The Bridges of Madison County”

October 8, 2013
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Other than the teams that put together Rent and Wicked, film-makers have taken ‘creative’ control, turning Broadway into the land of retreads.

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Theater Feature: Tennessee Williams Theater Festival 2013 — An Exemplary Year

October 8, 2013
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Tennessee Williams was a prolific writer, and each season the Festival presents an unfinished play or little known work from his vast canon.

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Arts Commentary: David Koch, WGBH Trustee — The Real God of Carnage?

October 8, 2013
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The opportunity to protest the presence of Tea Party mega-funder David Koch on the board of WGBH this Wednesday should not be missed by anyone who is interested in preserving the soul (and/or sanity) of public broadcasting.

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Film Review: Artfully Defying “Gravity”

October 7, 2013
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Mexico’s Alfonso Cuarón is among the world’s finest, most versatile filmmakers, and someone who—knock on wood!– hasn’t yet directed a dud. GRAVITY is quite OK too, but in the second tier of his work.

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