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Theater Review: Wilbury Theatre Group’s “The Skin of Our Teeth” — Surreal Meltdown

February 5, 2018
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The WTG production succeeds largely because it heightens the absurdity of a play that takes a comic look at catastrophe.

Fuse Jazz CD Review: “Ten Freedom Summers” — Unconventional Swing

August 3, 2012
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Wadada Leo Smith’s album contains avant-garde music with a human face, intimate and appealing and beautifully played by a band of virtuosos.

Arts Reconsideration: The 1971 Project — Celebrating a Great Year in Music (August Entry)

August 17, 2021
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Arts Fuse writers continue their countdown of great music celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. This month’s especially eclectic list includes The Allman Brothers Band, Roy Brown, Black Sabbath, Johann Sebastian Bach, and the Art Ensemble of Chicago.

World Books April Update

April 17, 2010
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By Bill Marx I have neglected to point out the recent postings at my other gig, the online feature World Books at BBC/PRI’s The World. I just completed my April podcast, a departure for the series because I focus on a classic American author rather than a writer in translation. But this April 21st marks…

Opera Album Review: Meyerbeer’s Disturbing Look at a Demagogue, “Le Prophète” (1849) — at Bard Summer Festival and on a New Recording

July 19, 2024
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Long one of the most-performed French operas, “Le Prophète,” thanks to some splendid performances, feels as vivid and relevant as ever.

Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

September 20, 2014
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, film, visual art, theater, author readings, and dance that’s coming up in the next week.

The Arts on Stamps of the World —October 15

October 15, 2017
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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

Film Review: “Make Me Famous” – In Search of Edward Brezinski

March 5, 2024
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“Make Me Famous” is not the portrait of a superstar like Jean-Michel Basquiat or Keith Haring; this protagonist is representative of the everyday angst, the struggle, the not-making-it, and the work that was produced regardless.

Concert Review: The Emerson String Quartet — A Note of Sadness

December 4, 2012
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The Emerson String Quartet gave its all – beauty, power, fire – in Johannes Brahms’s String Quartet in A minor, Opus 51, no. 2.

Book Review: The Genially Surreal World of Conjoined Twins

October 13, 2008
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By Bill Marx In his conversation with me for the World Books podcast, Irish novelist and playwright Sebastian Barry insists that, unlike imaginative writers in Eastern Europe, who seem to have dried up after the fall of the Iron Curtain, Irish authors are making good use of their recent freedom to talk about the corruption…

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