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Monday, August 31, 2015

Fuse Book Review: An Exhilarating Poetry Trek Through Europe by Arts Fuse Editor

John Taylor introduces readers to an amazing array of sensibilities and life histories in a babel of languages and from an atlas of nations.

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Sunday, August 30, 2015

Fuse Theater Review: "The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey" " Shine On by Arts Fuse Editor

James Lecesne's one-man show delivers just what it promises....a lot of laughs and a few tears as well.

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Saturday, August 29, 2015

Fuse Concert Review: J. Geils Band and Ian Hunter " Funky Humor, Street Wisdom, and Sweaty Groove by Arts Fuse Editor

You could walk from Inman Square to Harvard, see Muddy Waters or John Lee Hooker play, and have your whole worldview changed.

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Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Fuse TV Commentary: Jon Stewart " He Told Us to Put the Bong Down by Arts Fuse Editor

There's no question Jon Stewart had the attention of millions but, all kidding aside, was he a part of the political game or just a color commentator?

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Fuse Book Review: The Decision Not to Have Kids " Examined and Defended by Arts Fuse Editor

This anthology is thought-provoking and often moving; a spearhead into a relatively undiscussed new demographic.

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Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Fuse Book Review: "The Wake" " When England Stopped Being English by Arts Fuse Editor

More than a mere novel, The Wake is really a medieval epic poem to an English way of life that would be erased forever.

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Fuse Theater Review: "The Road to Where" " A Powerful Musical Memoir by Arts Fuse Editor

A friendly energy runs through the heart of The Road to Where, a tangible and inviting companionship.

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Monday, August 24, 2015

Fuse Theater Review: "Lady Macbeth and Her Lover" " Three's a Crowd by Arts Fuse Editor

Lady Macbeth and Her Lover is a determinedly somber play that tries to attain the feel of classic tragedy.

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Sunday, August 23, 2015

Fuse Visual Arts Review: Clifford Ross at MASS MoCA " Reinventing the Sublime by Arts Fuse Editor

The artist knows that beauty, and even the sublime, on their own terms are not enough to cut it in the competitive field of contemporary art.

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Fuse Theater Review: "Waitress" the Musical " An Enjoyable Slice of Down-Home Self-Discovery by Arts Fuse Editor

A few quibbles aside, the musical Waitress plays and sounds like it's close to ready for the Broadway big time.

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Saturday, August 22, 2015

Fuse Theater Review: "The Flick" in New York " A Bold Triumph by Arts Fuse Editor

The final impression left by The Flick is one of exhilaration.

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Friday, August 21, 2015

Fuse Concert Review: Gregg Allman and Doobie Brothers " A Study in Contrasts by Arts Fuse Editor

It was rather shocking to see Gregg Allman in such good shape this week: He looked as fit and trim as he has in decades.

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Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Fuse Concert Review: Carlos Santana Live " No Need for Golden Oldies by Arts Fuse Editor

Conventional wisdom says that audiences will mutiny if you don't give 'em all the hits, but this crowd danced all the way through Santana's eclectic setlist.

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Fuse Theater Review: 'Hands Off' to this "Titus Andronicus" by Arts Fuse Editor

A lazy night of Shakespearean mayhem in New York's Riverside Park.

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Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Fuse Visual Arts Review: Design Biennial Boston 2015 " The Future? Or a Short-Term Exercise? by Arts Fuse Editor

Current Mayor Marty Walsh has justifiably called for better design for Boston's new structures.

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Monday, August 17, 2015

Fuse Theater Review: BSC's "His Girl Friday" " Fast Action on the Chicago Beat by Arts Fuse Editor

His Girl Friday is a stirring celebration of the power of journalism that not only amuses but manages to be troubling as well.

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Thursday, August 13, 2015

Fuse Film Review: "The End of the Tour" " David Foster Wallace Done Right by Arts Fuse Editor

The End of the Tour don't remain a hall of mirrors but become a bridge that conveys its subject's honest, painful humanity.

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Tuesday, August 11, 2015

Fuse Music Preview: Ernie Smith and the Underrated Sound of Jamaica's Storytellers by Arts Fuse Editor

While Ernie Smith's rich baritone and playful lyrics are too often absent from venues and festivals, but he's found a New England champion in the Rhode Island band Soul Shot.

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Fuse Concert Review: Oakland's Neurosis " Utterly Heavy Post-Metal by Arts Fuse Editor

Neurosis is among the pioneers of the so-called post-metal sound, which knots the heavy and the heady into myriad patterns.

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Monday, August 10, 2015

Fuse Book Review: "Imperium" " A Shock-Packed Pastiche of History by Arts Fuse Editor

In this entertaining satire of empire, Christian Kracht makes use of a nihilistic magic realism, without the sweetness one normally associates with that mode.

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Saturday, August 8, 2015

Fuse Film Review: "Dark Places" " This is No "Gone Girl" by Arts Fuse Editor

Dark Places fumbles and stumbles as it tries, but fails, to follow all of the possible solutions to the whodunit.

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Fuse Theater Feature: John Douglas Thompson on "Red Velvet" " Race and Shakespeare in the Nineteenth Century by Arts Fuse Editor

Few people are familiar with the achievement of nineteenth century African-American Shakespearean actor Ira Aldridge.

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Friday, August 7, 2015

Fuse Book Review: Literary Critic James Wood and the Art of 'Deep Noticing' by Arts Fuse Editor

We will always need critics to show us how literature works by revering it rather than interrogating it as if it had committed a crime.

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Thursday, August 6, 2015

Fuse Rock Interview: Talking to a Post-Punk Legend " Bush Tetras's Lead Singer Cynthia Sley by Arts Fuse Editor

The Bush Tetras -- who've been on-off reunited since 1995, but haven't hit Boston in nearly two decades -- headline at the Sinclair this Saturday.

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Wednesday, August 5, 2015

Fuse Theater Review: "Unknown Soldier" " A Musical About the Power of Memory by Arts Fuse Editor

One of Unknown Soldier's powerful choices is that its central characters are not your standard young lovers.

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Monday, August 3, 2015

Fuse Film Review: "The Stanford Prison Experiment" " It's a Crime by Arts Fuse Editor

Even if you manage to overlook the objectionable ethics of the film, The Stanford Prison Experiment simply doesn't work as a gripping drama.

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Fuse Dance Review: Jessica Lang Dance's "The Wanderer" " Beware the Brook by Arts Fuse Editor

Perhaps there's no way to reproduce the subtlety of this work in the theater today. Our stages are so materialistic, so technological. .

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Saturday, August 1, 2015

Fuse Visual Arts Review: Dazzling "Architectural Allusions" at the deCordova by Arts Fuse Editor

This astutely curated exhibit explores the presence of architecture in contemporary sculpture.

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Friday, July 31, 2015

Fuse Theater Review: A Terrific "Memory House" by Arts Fuse Editor

The relationship between a now-single mother and her bright, troubled daughter makes for a convincing, pertinent, and deeply funny play.

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Fuse Theater Review: Three's Isolation " "I Saw My Neighbor on the Train and I Didn't Even Smile" by Arts Fuse Editor

The play's made up of domestic confrontations in which dramatist Suzanne Heathcote at times moves past moments of high tension at high speed.

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Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Fuse Film Review: Worth Traveling North to See the "Manglehorn" by Arts Fuse Editor

Al Pacino, playing the title character, delivers his most impressive performance since he starred in Terrence McNally's Frankie and Johnny a quarter century ago.

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All that Chat

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Sep 16, 2025: Art - Music Box Theatre
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Nov 13, 2025: Oedipus - Studio 54
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