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The Arts on Stamps of the World — November 30

November 30, 2017
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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

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Fuse Views: Why the Vogue For Stephen Sondheim’s “Company”?

March 14, 2014
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“Company” explores a very relevant question in our technological age, where human interaction can be watered down to clicking on ‘like’ or ‘share’ buttons: how do we share our lives with others?

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Classical Album Review: Poisonous Delicacy — Kurt Weill’s “Seven Deadly Sins” and the Wit of Dorothy Parker

December 16, 2019
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I had never heard of Marcus Paus before, but his work I Hate Men, set to witty verses by Dorothy Parker, proved to be one of the most entertaining and engaging pieces I have heard in recent years.

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Theater Review: “The Obligation to Live” — Defying the Machinery of Death

April 25, 2025
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The emphasis of the B&P troupe has become increasingly apocalyptic: the struggle we are engaged in is for nothing less than the preservation of our planet, and for the preservation of our individual — and collective ––hearts and minds.

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Film Review: The Swing Jazz of Eddie Durham — Credit Well Deserved

January 27, 2024
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I may not agree with some of the documentary’s spin, but the film gives the viewer a clear and entertaining picture of Eddie Durham’s long and important musical career.

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Film Review: “The Nature of Love” — Revamping the Rom-Com

July 21, 2024
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Director Monia Chokri finds a language for communicating Sophia’s desire without putting her body on display.

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Film Review: “She Said” — Listening to Women

November 25, 2022
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She Said’s straightforward narrative avoids self-indulgent fanfare and invites viewers to appreciate journalism as a hunt for the truth that, in this case, inspired a cultural earthquake when the #MeToo movement rose up in its wake.

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Theater Review: ‘August: Osage County’

May 7, 2010
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August: Osage County by Tracy Letts. Directed by Anna D. Shapiro. The Steppenwolf Theatre Company production presented by Broadway Across America at the Colonial Theatre, Boston, MA, though May 9. Reviewed by Bill Marx “All happy families are alike, but every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way,” opined Leo Tolstoy sagely in Anna…

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Classical Music Feature: What a Way to Start the Week!

July 16, 2011
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For those who imagine Tanglewood only as concerts in the huge shed which seats 6,000, these Sunday morning concerts offer a more intimate experience as well as a chance to hear modern pieces they never would hear in what we all call the “regular concert fare,”

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Film Review: A Pleasant “Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont”

June 8, 2006
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By Betsy Sherman As a film about a brief, cross-generational friendship, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont (now playing at the Kendall Square Cinema) doesn’t have the pop-culture cachet of Lost in Translation or Harold and Maude. It’s content to nestle into an ambiguously etched contemporary London in which people quote Wordsworth and make a fuss…

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