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The Fuse in London: Jazz Festival, Diary 4

November 18, 2010
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One of the primary reasons I’m in London is to hear Martial Solal play in person. He’s had sporadic exposure in the US, always to acclaim. But the acclaim never lasts because he rarely performs on the opposite side of the Atlantic and his American commercial releases are infrequent. By Steve Elman Quick, can you…

Opera Album Review: “Naughty Saint Vitalis” Targets Celibacy in the Priesthood

May 16, 2023
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Swiss composer Richard Flury’s engaging comic opera is a celebration of the life spirit, and a criticism of celibacy as a practice that cramps and distorts an individual’s basic humanity.

Theater Review: Notes on Shakespeare as a Bare Bard

February 19, 2011
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Two recent productions of Shakespeare, one a heralded London staging at the Donmar Warehous heading to New York in April, the other an Actors’ Shakespeare Project presentation in Davis Square, provide examples of the strengths and weaknesses of tackling the Bard without frills.

Film Reviews: Flesh and Fantasy in the Art House

April 26, 2014
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Two new films take a poetic and fantastical look at the artifice of sensual surfaces to imagine the horrific realities beneath.

Theater Interview: Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival’s David Kaplan on “Last Call: The Final Fall Festival”

September 2, 2025
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“For this season, I did not want us to do a ‘greatest hits.’ I did not want to limp away. This is our last full and robust season, but not our last time producing plays.”

Film Review: “Day of the Fight” – The Boxing Genre Reinvented … Again

December 12, 2024
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It may be shot in B&W, but “Day of the Fight” is not a retread of “Raging Bull” — though Joe Pesci is present.

Film Review: “Godland” — A Near-Masterpiece from Iceland

May 5, 2023
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This gaunt historical narrative examines “love and faith and the fear of God” while also taking on issues of colonialism and masculinity. For the most part, the grand scheme is pulled off.

Film Review: “Oz the Great and Powerful” — CGI Overload on The Yellow Brick Road

March 7, 2013
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Employing every trick of digital capability to astound and amaze eventually becomes little more than hocus-pocus.

Short Fuse Commentary: The Skillful Supernaturalism of Glen Duncan

July 4, 2012
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Here you have it: Werewolves are horny, vamps merely thirsty. This, to be sure, is material to work with, as novelist Glen Duncan does. But I can’t help thinking about great nineteenth-century novels of involuntary transformation.

Concert Review: Linda J. Chase — “The City Is Burning”

November 11, 2017
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Chase’s iconoclastic genre-crossing oratorio proceeds from dark to light, and wins its struggle for transcendence.

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