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Theater Review: “Going to See the Kid” — Baseball for the Holidays

Despite some small misfires, Going to See the Kid tells an amusing, heartfelt story with confidence and flair.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Boston Red Sox, Erik Nikander, Going to See the Kid, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Steven Drukman, Ted Williams

Fuse Concert Review: “Hot Stove, Cool Music” — A Salute to Boston’s Vintage Years

Intentionally or not, much of the “Hot Stove, Cook Music” concert was flashback to the Boston scene 20 years ago .

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Music, Review, Rock Tagged: Al Kooper, Boston Red Sox, Brett Milano, Cavedogs, Foundation to Be Named Later, Hot Stove Cool Music, Juliana Hatfield, Q Division, Robin Lane

Book Review: Hail to The Kid — Ted Williams

This expansive biography of Ted Williams is not awash in sentimentally, thanks to Ben Bradlee’s praiseworthy search for the facts, no matter where they lead, and his command of language, honed during his 25-year career as a reporter and editor at “The Boston Globe.”

By: Robert Israel Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Ben Bradlee, Boston Red Sox, Jr, Ted Williams, The Kid: The Immortal Life of Ted Williams

Theater Review: The ART’s Musical “Johnny Baseball” — Safe at Home

Perhaps the inspirational cliches, by-the-numbers storyline, and fan cartoon hijinks are what’s expected in a baseball musical. Johnny Baseball, Music by Robert Reale, Lyrics by Willie Reale, Book by Richard Dresser. Story by Dresser and Reale. Directed by Diane Paulus. Staged by the American Repertory Theater at the Loeb Drama Center, Cambridge, MA, through July […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Theater Tagged: American Repertory Theater, art, Boston Red Sox, Diane Paulus, Johnny Baseball, musical, Theater

Coming Attractions in Theater: May 2010

By Bill Marx The month contains plenty of summerish entertainment, from a new baseball musical to a campy Alfred Hitchcock parody and a jazzy update of The Mikado. For me, the standouts are the more demanding fare, such as a festival of new American theater pieces and an exciting opportunity see Shakespeare’s rarely staged Timon […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Theater Tagged: Actors' Shakespeare Project, American-Repertory-Theatre, Bach at Leipzig, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston Red Sox, Charlestown Working Theater, Craig Lucas, Dan Hurlin, Diane Paulus, Disfarmer, Emerging America, Farragut North, Gold Dust Orphans, Hot Mikado, Huntington-Theatre-Company, Institute of Contemporary Art, Itamar Moses, Johnny Baseball, Kate Warner, musical, New Repertory Theatre, Peter-DuBois, Portland Stage Company, Poste Restante, Prelude to a Kiss, Ryan Landry, Shakespeare, The Gulls, They Gotta Be Secret Agents, Timon of Athens, Tracy Letts, Watertown, Zeitgeist Stage Company

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