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Film Review: A Quartet of Discoveries at the Provincetown International Film Festival

June 25, 2015
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Reviews of four strong independent films that may — or may not — be coming to a screen near you.

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Visual Arts Review: “Turner & the Sea” at the Peabody Essex Museum — A Grand Performance

July 23, 2014
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Some of J.M.W. Turner’s most personal, experimental, and enigmatic works have been selected for this show. They are also among the most fragile and least often shown.

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Author Interview: Writer Vincent Czyz — To Create a World

September 6, 2022
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Writer Vincent Czyz (and Arts Fuse critic) talks about his wide-ranging essay collection The Secret Adventures of Order.

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Fuse Theater Review: The Tennessee Williams Theater Festival Turns a Healthy Six

September 26, 2011
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The quality varies at the TWTF, but here is a chance to become aware of rarely done Williams plays. And if a production does not measure up to one’s expectations, the effort will inspire a few sturdy directors to try their own hand at these and other texts of America’s most eloquent poet-playwright.

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Film Review: “Miss Sharon Jones!” — Soulful Inspiration

August 29, 2016
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If this movie boosts Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings into well-paid entertainers with a major record deal, I salute filmmaker Barbara Kopple.

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Theater Review: “The Cocktail Hour” — A Pick-Me-Up for Waning WASPS

November 25, 2013
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With the 1% rapidly vacuuming up the resources of the upper and middle classes, A.R. Gurney’s comic vision of the tipsy idle rich, shorn of cares and criminality, floats completely free of reality.

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Theater Review: “Blink” at the Chester Theatre Company — Anything But Fleeting

August 14, 2015
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Technology is the gimmick in this two-hander, but what makes Blink absorbing is the writing, teamed with excellent acting and directing.

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Book Review: “Acts of Desperation” — The Ordinary Flip-Flops of Desire

March 10, 2021
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This debut novel concentrates on the vagaries of desire, but in a spare, uncomplicated, and natural fashion that sets it apart from any formulaic romance.

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Classical Music Interview: Playing by Heart — The Chiara String Quartet

March 3, 2013
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Playing by heart with these three incredible people is the most exhilarating thing I’ve ever done as a musician, and I look forward to many more years of doing this with the Chiara Quartet. — Gregory Beaver of the Chiara String Quartet

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Film Review: “The Genius of Marian” — A Deeply Moving Look at the Devastation of Alzheimer’s Disease

January 21, 2014
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“The Genius of Marian,” the new documentary from directors Banker White and Anita Fitch, depicts the bitter process of absorbing disaster, with White’s mother as the subject.

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