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Wednesday, November 9, 2016

Fuse Preview: Aurea " Breaking the Boundaries Between Words and Music by Arts Fuse Editor

Adventurous, exciting, and thought provoking, Aurea is dedicated to an interdisciplinary vision of the arts.

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Visual Arts Review: Augmented Reality " The Future Is Now by Arts Fuse Editor

 Technology is becoming a tool for artists to mastermind aesthetic and social interventions.

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Sunday, November 6, 2016

Coming Attractions: November 6 through 22 " What Will Light Your Fire by Arts Fuse Editor

Arts Fuse critics select the best in theater, visual arts, film, music, author events, and dance for the coming week.

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Book Review: "The Hero's Body" " Let's Get Physical by Arts Fuse Editor

Giraldi was enticed by the fraternity of the gym as a way of filling out and firming up both his body and his sense of self.

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Tuesday, November 1, 2016

Theater Review: "Relativity" " Albert Einstein, A Monster of a Genius by Arts Fuse Editor

Mark St. Germain's drama is not about Cold War politics, but the question of whether a great man is (or need be) a good man.

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Dance Review: Trophy Games at the Boston Ballet by Arts Fuse Editor

You're not supposed to look for deep meaning in this often-revised jumbo of a ballet.

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Theater Review: "The Scottsboro Boys" " A Musical That Matters by Arts Fuse Editor

The musical is a relentless, one hour and fifty minute excursion into the history of racial bias in America, from the cotton fields to the Civil Rights movement.

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Sunday, October 30, 2016

Film Review: "Certain Women" " Mysteries of the Ordinary by Arts Fuse Editor

Kelly Reichardt's cinema gives us slow, rich portraits of life's daily rhythms, its frustrations and unresolved conflicts.

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CD Review: Leonard Cohen " Embracing the Darkness by Arts Fuse Editor

At 82, Cohen seems to feel that there isn't a lot of time left and that he has nothing to prove to anyone.

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Thursday, October 27, 2016

Film Review: "Aquarius" " A Woman of a Certain Age Kicks Ass by Arts Fuse Editor

How refreshing it is to see a female protagonist whose strength of will and character are not of the superhuman variety.

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Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Book Review: Mark Greif's "Against Everything" " But For Nothing? by Arts Fuse Editor

Mark Greif's analyses can be sharply counter-intuitive, but once we absorb the meaning of his criticism there's less to go forward with than we expect.

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Monday, October 24, 2016

Dance Review: BalletX " Fusion and Diffusion by Arts Fuse Editor

Ballet steps from the classroom were sprinkled in with modern dance, moonwalking, shimmies, groping duets, and any other kind of movement.

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Sunday, October 23, 2016

Coming Attractions: October 23 through November 8 " What Will Light Your Fire by Arts Fuse Editor

Arts Fuse critics select the best in theater, visual arts, film, music, author events, and dance for the coming week.

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Rock Interview: Talking with Brand X " After Decades, Back on Tour by Arts Fuse Editor

Brand X was essentially a bunch of top-flight session men who got together to blow off steam, a UK version of Weather Report.

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Friday, October 21, 2016

Theater Review: Paul Zaloom's "White Like Me" " Madman on a Mission by Arts Fuse Editor

It's the wild mind of puppeteer Paul Zaloom that's really on display here.

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Fuse Theater Review: "Abigail/1702' " Beat the Devil? by Arts Fuse Editor

Despite an appearance by Satan, this is not all that frightening a yarn for Halloween, but the MRT's production is absorbing nonetheless.

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Thursday, October 20, 2016

Theater Review: Sarah Ruhl's "Court Life" " A Losing Match by Arts Fuse Editor

Sarah Ruhl attempts, but fails, to discover illuminating similarities between the powerful then and now.

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Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Book Review: Was Sonny Liston Murdered? by Arts Fuse Editor

The Murder of Sonny Liston is an absorbing, albeit speculative, attempt at addressing the mystery that died with the man.

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Visual Arts Book Review: Critic Douglas Crimp " "Before Pictures" by Arts Fuse Editor

Critic Douglas Crimp's autobiography provides an absorbing, microcosmic look into the early days of the 1970s New York art scene.

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Monday, October 17, 2016

Dance Review: Big Dance Party by Arts Fuse Editor

This is a theater of signals, like a fast-changing slide show of things we recognize and don't quite recognize.

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Dance Preview: "Black Ballerina" " Sparking Conversations about Dance and Race by Arts Fuse Editor

"Tokenism also plays into this issue. Some companies are hiring one dancer of color and they think they've done diversity."

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Sunday, October 16, 2016

Film Review: "A Man Called Ove" " An Even-Tempered Dramedy of Rebirth by Arts Fuse Editor

A Man Called Ove's darkness and humor are balanced artfully, a merit one often sees in Scandinavian film.

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Saturday, October 15, 2016

Fuse Theater Review: New Rep's "Good" " Disturbing rather than Devastating by Arts Fuse Editor

The New Rep production is polished, surprising, and certainly hard-hitting, right up to the last moment.

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Tuesday, October 11, 2016

Book Review: The Story of The Cure " The Beatles of Goth by Arts Fuse Editor

As confessions of rock decadence go, Lol Tolhust's are fairly tame stuff.

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Monday, October 10, 2016

Theater Review: A Gripping "Man in Snow" at the Gloucester Stage Company by Arts Fuse Editor

Man in Snow encourages us to reflect on our own bit of mortality. We don't probably take the time to do that enough.

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Sunday, October 9, 2016

Coming Attractions: October 9 through 25 " What Will Light Your Fire by Arts Fuse Editor

Arts Fuse critics select the best in theater, visual arts, film, music, author events, and dance for the coming week.

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Friday, October 7, 2016

Visual Arts Review: More than a Painter of Fish " William Merritt Chase at the MFA by Arts Fuse Editor

The variety of this exhibition amply proves that William Merritt Chase brought great painterly insight to much more than just the daily catch.

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Book Review: Analyzing Musical Fisticuffs " "Your Favorite Band is Killing Me" by Arts Fuse Editor

Steven Hyden doesn't really pick a side in these fights; he's broad minded enough to know and enjoy every artist's work.

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Thursday, October 6, 2016

Book Review: "The Lesser Bohemians" " The Desires of the Flesh, Revived by Arts Fuse Editor

In The Lesser Bohemians, Eimear McBride seems to be determined to combat the soullessness of pornography.

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Tuesday, October 4, 2016

Theater Review: "A Gun Show" " A Percussive Meditation on Firearms by Arts Fuse Editor

This company of highly talented collaborators asks: "What is it about our collective psyche that fastens on so tightly to guns?"

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Saturday, October 1, 2016

Visual Arts Review: Terry Winters " A Distinctive "Structure of Things" by Arts Fuse Editor

Something clicked when I visited the MFA's diminutive but brilliant new exhibition of Terry Winters' works on paper.

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All that Chat

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Nov 16, 2025: Chess - Imperial Theatre
Mar 23, 2026: Giant - Music Box Theatre
Apr 06, 2026: Becky Shaw - Hayes Theater
Apr 16, 2026: Proof - Booth Theatre
Apr 26, 2026: Drama Desk Cut-Off