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Debra Cash talks to famed dancer and choreographer Seán Curran about his having a reunion of sorts with Boston-based choreographers Brain Feigenbaum and Tony Guglietti. At the
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November 25, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Debra Cash talks to famed dancer and choreographer Seán Curran about his having a reunion of sorts with Boston-based choreographers Brain Feigenbaum and Tony Guglietti. At the
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Aaron Keebaugh on the @bostonsymphony.bsky.social, conductor Anna Handler and soloist Joshua Bell taking on Ukrainian composer Thomas de Hartmann's Violin Concerto (1943).
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Concert Review: Joshua Bell, Anna Handler, and the BSO Confront de Hartmann’s Haunted Ukrainian Concerto - The Arts Fuse
The destruction and displacement of people today so recall the past that Thomas de Hartmann’s music resounds with fierce, resonant force.
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November 25, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Aaron Keebaugh on the @bostonsymphony.bsky.social, conductor Anna Handler and soloist Joshua Bell taking on Ukrainian composer Thomas de Hartmann's Violin Concerto (1943).
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If ever there was a musical act and a venue perfectly suited to each other, writes Glenn Rifkin, it would have to be The Wailin' Jennys, the harmony-laden Canadian folk trio, and the Groton Hill Music Center.
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November 23, 2025 at 4:04 PM
If ever there was a musical act and a venue perfectly suited to each other, writes Glenn Rifkin, it would have to be The Wailin' Jennys, the harmony-laden Canadian folk trio, and the Groton Hill Music Center.
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David D'Arcy on three intriguing independent films that got a bounce out of this year's #newyorkfilmfestival -- they could be coming to you soon: "Barrio Triste", "Evidence", and "Cover-Up".
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November 23, 2025 at 4:02 PM
David D'Arcy on three intriguing independent films that got a bounce out of this year's #newyorkfilmfestival -- they could be coming to you soon: "Barrio Triste", "Evidence", and "Cover-Up".
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Michael Londra writes that the authors assembled in the anthology “Crimean Fig: Contemporary Crimean Tatar Poetry and Fiction” (@arrowsmithpress.bsky.social) are not afraid to speak up for Tatar language and culture, while simultaneously speaking out against Putin.
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Book Review: "Crimean Fig" - Everything Has Its Own Soul - The Arts Fuse
The authors assembled in "Crimean Fig" demonstrate they are unafraid to speak up for Tatar language and culture, while simultaneously speaking out against Putin, unwilling to submit.
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November 22, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Michael Londra writes that the authors assembled in the anthology “Crimean Fig: Contemporary Crimean Tatar Poetry and Fiction” (@arrowsmithpress.bsky.social) are not afraid to speak up for Tatar language and culture, while simultaneously speaking out against Putin.
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David Daniel on Jan Kerouac's "Baby Driver" (@nyrb-imprints.bsky.social): this artfully written, semi-autobiographical novel fits into the tradition of American road literature, but it moves at a distinctly different pace.
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Book Review: Jan Kerouac's "Baby Driver" - Storming Down the Road - The Arts Fuse
"Baby Driver" is a book in the tradition of American road literature, but it moves at a distinctly different pace.
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November 22, 2025 at 12:38 PM
David Daniel on Jan Kerouac's "Baby Driver" (@nyrb-imprints.bsky.social): this artfully written, semi-autobiographical novel fits into the tradition of American road literature, but it moves at a distinctly different pace.
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An enthused Jessica Lockhart writes that Doug Varone and Dancers at the ICA Boston made skillful use of some of the most luxurious movement vocabulary available in contemporary dance.
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Dance Review: Doug Varone and Dancers - Beauty and Resilience for These Dark Times - The Arts Fuse
Varone and dancers made skillful use of some of the most luxurious movement vocabulary available in contemporary dance
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November 22, 2025 at 12:37 PM
An enthused Jessica Lockhart writes that Doug Varone and Dancers at the ICA Boston made skillful use of some of the most luxurious movement vocabulary available in contemporary dance.
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Steve Provizer looks back at the compelling 1988 documentary "Let’s Get Lost" because of the recently released " #ChetBaker Performs and Sings: Swimming by Moonlight," 15 unreleased studio recordings.
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Jazz Commentary: The Enduring Enigma of Chet Baker - The Arts Fuse
I take a look back at the compelling documentary "Let's Get Lost" because of the recently released "Chet Baker Performs and Sings: Swimming by Moonlight", 15 unreleased studio recordings made by the t...
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November 21, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Steve Provizer looks back at the compelling 1988 documentary "Let’s Get Lost" because of the recently released " #ChetBaker Performs and Sings: Swimming by Moonlight," 15 unreleased studio recordings.
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HBO Max's "The Seduction" is visually stunning but, even though it is the magnificently clothed French aristocracy, @sarahminaosman.bsky.social writes that it all comes down to unremarkable people behaving badly.
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Television Review: "The Seduction" - HBO’s French Aristocrats Behave Badly, But Beautifully - The Arts Fuse
"The Seduction" is visually stunning but, even though it is the magnificently clothed French aristocracy, it all comes down to unremarkable people behaving badly.
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November 21, 2025 at 12:44 PM
HBO Max's "The Seduction" is visually stunning but, even though it is the magnificently clothed French aristocracy, @sarahminaosman.bsky.social writes that it all comes down to unremarkable people behaving badly.
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Douglas Kennedy writes that reading German historian and essayist #uwewittstock's riveting "February 1933: The Winter of Literature" just ten months into Trump’s second mandate is nothing less than unnerving.
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Book Review: Writers on the Brink - "February 1933" and the Chilling Parallels to Trump’s America - The Arts Fuse
Reading "February 1933", just ten months into Trump’s second mandate is nothing less than unnerving.
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November 21, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Douglas Kennedy writes that reading German historian and essayist #uwewittstock's riveting "February 1933: The Winter of Literature" just ten months into Trump’s second mandate is nothing less than unnerving.
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Peg Aloi writes that knowing that artist #PeterHujar died of AIDS in 1987—one of countless casualties of a devastating epidemic that cut short so many artists’ lives—gives #IraSachs's film "Peter Hujar's Day" a sad, mortal urgency.
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Film Review: "Peter Hujar’s Day" - Carpe Diem - The Arts Fuse
Knowing that artist Peter Hujar died of AIDS in 1987—one of countless casualties of a devastating epidemic that cut short so many artists’ lives—gives the film a sad, mortal urgency.
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November 21, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Peg Aloi writes that knowing that artist #PeterHujar died of AIDS in 1987—one of countless casualties of a devastating epidemic that cut short so many artists’ lives—gives #IraSachs's film "Peter Hujar's Day" a sad, mortal urgency.
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For @sarahminaosman.bsky.social, Peacock TV's #stumble is a welcome addition to the increasingly tired mockumentary genre.
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November 20, 2025 at 8:12 PM
For @sarahminaosman.bsky.social, Peacock TV's #stumble is a welcome addition to the increasingly tired mockumentary genre.
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November 20, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Luke Spiro on @lukeoneil47.bsky.social 's "We Had it Coming and Other Fictions": He doesn’t have any solutions to our political dissipation, but he certainly knows how to diagnose its illnesses. @orbooks.bsky.social
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Book Review: "We Had it Coming and Other Fictions" - Bursts of Existential Powerlessness - The Arts Fuse
Luke O’Neil doesn’t have any solutions to our political dissipation, but he certainly knows how to diagnose its illnesses.
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November 20, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Luke Spiro on @lukeoneil47.bsky.social 's "We Had it Coming and Other Fictions": He doesn’t have any solutions to our political dissipation, but he certainly knows how to diagnose its illnesses. @orbooks.bsky.social
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Did you know that Brando was considered to play Bruno? Wild! Gerald Peary learned that reading "Criss-Cross", the new study by Stephen Rebello of #alfredhitchcock's film "Strangers on a Train".
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Book Review: Stephen Rebello’s "Criss-Cross": A Vital Text for Decoding Hitchcock’s "Strangers on a Train" - The Arts Fuse
There’s no question that the author of "Criss-Cross" approaches "Strangers on a Train" from a gay-centric viewpoint.
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November 20, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Did you know that Brando was considered to play Bruno? Wild! Gerald Peary learned that reading "Criss-Cross", the new study by Stephen Rebello of #alfredhitchcock's film "Strangers on a Train".
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In this Short Fuse podcast, Elizabeth Howard speaks with Dr. Shuvendu Sen—the director and producer of “Broadway, Bars & Fortune,” a documentary that explores how theater and the arts fosters healing and redemption among formerly incarcerated individuals.
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Short Fuse Podcast #81: Dr. Shuvendu Sen on "Broadway, Bars & Fortune" - The Arts Fuse
Elizabeth Howard speaks with Dr. Shuvendu Sen—the director and producer of "Broadway, Bars & Fortune," a documentary that explores how theater and the arts fosters healing and redemption among formerl...
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November 20, 2025 at 1:01 PM
In this Short Fuse podcast, Elizabeth Howard speaks with Dr. Shuvendu Sen—the director and producer of “Broadway, Bars & Fortune,” a documentary that explores how theater and the arts fosters healing and redemption among formerly incarcerated individuals.
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A review ofTCM's "Pre-Code Essentials: Must-See Cinema from Hollywood’s Untamed Era, 1930-1934" - Film fans who love the style and spirit of thirties Hollywood will have to control themselves from drooling happily all over this fabulously written, photo-filled volume.
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Book Review: "Pre-Code Essentials" - When Moviemakers Played the Game of Evade-The-Censor - The Arts Fuse
Film fans who love the style and spirit of early-thirties Hollywood will have to control themselves from drooling happily all over this fabulously written, photo-filled volume.
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November 19, 2025 at 1:24 PM
A review ofTCM's "Pre-Code Essentials: Must-See Cinema from Hollywood’s Untamed Era, 1930-1934" - Film fans who love the style and spirit of thirties Hollywood will have to control themselves from drooling happily all over this fabulously written, photo-filled volume.
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David Greenham writes that David Auburn's drama "Summer, 1976" (staged by Central Square Theater) is a cleverly designed snapshot of a deep but fleeting friendship.
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November 19, 2025 at 1:22 PM
David Greenham writes that David Auburn's drama "Summer, 1976" (staged by Central Square Theater) is a cleverly designed snapshot of a deep but fleeting friendship.
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Debra Cash writes that the high-voltage artists of Camille A. Brown and Dancers – and the gifted musical trio that accompanies her evening-length "I AM" – seek joy with effort and ferocity.
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Dance Review: Camille A. Brown’s "I AM" - Where Ferocity Becomes Joy - The Arts Fuse
There is a sense that once wound up, the dancers are not going to let go – not from their power and not from their dreams.
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November 19, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Debra Cash writes that the high-voltage artists of Camille A. Brown and Dancers – and the gifted musical trio that accompanies her evening-length "I AM" – seek joy with effort and ferocity.
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The Arts Fuse’s end-of-the-year fundraising campaign is underway. We have set an ambitious $25,000 goal to raise by December 31. Please be a part of this vital effort. We can’t do it without your support. artsfuse.org/keep-the-fus...
Donations - Please Help Keep the Arts Fuse Lit - The Arts Fuse
The Arts Fuse serves as the next generation platform for thousands of arts and culture consumers across Greater Boston and across the globe. The magazine now
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November 19, 2025 at 1:19 PM
The Arts Fuse’s end-of-the-year fundraising campaign is underway. We have set an ambitious $25,000 goal to raise by December 31. Please be a part of this vital effort. We can’t do it without your support. artsfuse.org/keep-the-fus...
The newsletter is on a roll. And a reminder of the national Fall of Freedom protest, scheduled to take place on November 21 and 22.
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November 19, 2025 at 1:18 PM
The newsletter is on a roll. And a reminder of the national Fall of Freedom protest, scheduled to take place on November 21 and 22.
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Steve Elman writes that concerts in the past week by the @bostonsymphony.bsky.social with guest artist James Carter and the Orquesta Sinfónico de Puerto Rico with guest artist Luis Sanz were a cultural festival and a musical feast.
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November 18, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Steve Elman writes that concerts in the past week by the @bostonsymphony.bsky.social with guest artist James Carter and the Orquesta Sinfónico de Puerto Rico with guest artist Luis Sanz were a cultural festival and a musical feast.
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@pkeough1.bsky.social on #TrainDreams: This is a lyrical, visually arresting, if sometimes verbally prolix film version of Denis Johnson’s sublime 2011 novella.
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Film Review: Troubled "Dreams" - The Arts Fuse
This is a lyrical, visually arresting, if sometimes verbally prolix film version of Denis Johnson's sublime 2011 novella.
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November 18, 2025 at 1:13 PM
@pkeough1.bsky.social on #TrainDreams: This is a lyrical, visually arresting, if sometimes verbally prolix film version of Denis Johnson’s sublime 2011 novella.
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Jonathan Blumhofer on Miró Quartet's recording of Argentine composer Alberto Ginastera’s three string quartets: The @pentatonemusic.bsky.social album ends up paying big dividends.
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November 18, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Jonathan Blumhofer on Miró Quartet's recording of Argentine composer Alberto Ginastera’s three string quartets: The @pentatonemusic.bsky.social album ends up paying big dividends.
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@sarahminaosman.bsky.social writes that the #GeorgeClooney vehicle #JayKelly is shallow attack on Hollywood shallowness.
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November 18, 2025 at 1:08 PM
@sarahminaosman.bsky.social writes that the #GeorgeClooney vehicle #JayKelly is shallow attack on Hollywood shallowness.
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