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WATCH CLOSELY: “The Stand” Stumbles

January 26, 2021
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Though the cast is generally excellent, Stephen King’s characters are often at the mercy of wrongheaded writing or needlessly flashy special effects.

Theater Review: “Accidental Death of an Anarchist – The Vexation of Violence

December 6, 2017
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Dario Fo’s dark comedy still deserves its reputation as a classic.

Book Review: Charles D’Ambrosio’s “Loitering” — Slam-Bang Ghost Stories

December 1, 2014
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Charies D’Ambrosio’s short fiction collections were finalists for major awards, but it is his essays that I return to again and again.

Dance Review: Boston Ballet’s “Kylián/ Wings of Wax”

March 26, 2017
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Kylián’s astute choice of musical selections helped gave a structural shape to “Wings of Wax.”

Book Review: “Academy Street” — Affirming Life in Fresh and Surprising Ways

April 29, 2015
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This is a powerful, intensely felt short novel about the lives of ordinary people by a very young Irish writer.

The Arts on Stamps of the World — August 24

August 24, 2017
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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

Book Review: “On The Couch” — A Beautiful Visual Tour

July 30, 2018
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On the Couch is an extraordinary coffee table book for anyone interested in “recumbency” and how the couch became the icon of psychoanalysis.

Video Game Commentary: The Ideology of “Angry Birds” — Back to “Animal Farm”

July 16, 2014
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The mega-popular video game Angry Birds is nothing if not hypocritical. A story of political and moral resistance is packaged to fill corporate coffers.

Classical Music Commentary: Past Imperfect

June 17, 2005
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Old recordings of classical music may have less to teach us than many critics think. By Mark Kroll It has been more than 100 years since the first wax cylinder scratched out a reproduction of someone screaming into a megaphone, but classical music recordings still “can’t get no respect.” A common lament has been that,…

Theater Review: Bedlam’s “Sense & Sensibility” — Theatrical Nirvana

December 21, 2017
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All of the pieces – and some of them are quite odd and incongruent – come together in Sense & Sensibility to become one.

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