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March Short Fuses – Materia Critica

Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

Jonah May 26, 2022 at 5:24 pm on Television Review: “Love on the Spectrum U.S.” Celebrating Autism — in AmericaAutistic people shouldn't be alone. This show not only shows others that autistic people can find that one true person....
Jan Mancuso May 25, 2022 at 2:46 pm on Concert Review: Joe Jackson at the Shubert Theatre — A Restlessly Creative Artist at the Peak of his PowersSo envious of those who have seen and will see & hear Joe on this tour. He’s a favorite musician...
Joan Lancourt May 25, 2022 at 1:55 pm on Theater Review: “Our Daughters, Like Pillars” — Bearing the WeightSadly, David Greenham and I must have seen different plays. Banal (i.e. lacking in originality or freshness; trite and predictable)...
Jana Mestecky May 25, 2022 at 1:52 pm on Theater Commentary: Burnt NortonThank you, thank you, thank you. From one of the Times Nine.
Bill Marx, Editor of The Arts Fuse May 25, 2022 at 9:10 am on Arts Commentary: Getting ‘em in the DoorHere is an Azenberg sentiment, quoted in the New York Theatre article, that struck me: "We don’t have an agreed...