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Bedlam's provocative production of The Crucible has a purpose -- to urge us all to stand up and shout down the devils in our midst.
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.
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Country Music digs into the rich, deep dirt of a music with a complicated past, a hybrid genre soaked in soulful suffering, twangy glory, and times both high and tough.
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Few of the numbers in Choir Boy fails to astonish.
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Three remarkable films that promise a bumper crop of world cinema yet to come at the NY Film Festival.
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Veteran guitarist Jimmy Herring and the 5 of 7 play groove-heavy tunes that barrel into unexpected and interesting places.
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"Honest weight" has more to with like karats of gold, maybe. The "weight" being the value of something. It kind of alludes to that a little bit.
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Apart from predilections turned into marketing hooks, both ZZ Top and Cheap Trick know how to rock as a base instinct " and that also hasn't changed since they first burst to fame in the '70…
That rarest of Opening Nights: a program that was mostly fun and entertaining, but also substantive and artistically satisfying.
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If the music industry put as much effort into being fair to their customers as they put into taking their money, everyone could participate in the rocking world.
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Listening to the dead speak, amid the natural grandeur of Mount Auburn Cemetery, is a moving experience.
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Emily Remler took a particularly clear-eyed view of her work. She didn't want to be judged by a lesser standard because she was a woman in the overwhelmingly male world of jazz.
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Reading The Sweetest Fruits is like looking at the back of an oriental rug in which the pattern is rather more indistinct than the front but the colors much richer and more vivid.
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One of Saint-Saëns's most important operas, Proserpine, has recently been given its world-premiere recording, and the result is a revelation.
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This clever Japanese zombie film is a spirited attempt to blow up and reinvigorate the genre.
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Billy Joel remains in fine voice and his versatile bandmates provided his songs with grace and fire power that fleshed out his casual but punchy onstage prowess.
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The Who " arguably the third cog in British rock royalty behind the Beatles and the Rolling Stones " delivered more than a nostalgic run through the hits at Fenway Park on Friday.
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Thankfully, public art has become much more than murals for blank wall spaces.
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As a River is a sensuously and smoothly written book, a heartfelt meditation on what divides us from each other and from love.
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Prog legend Rick Wakeman is grumpy -- becoming a septuagenarian means he can no longer party like it's 1969.
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With, The Purists, Dan McCabe has written a comic drama that not only has a lot to say, but does it with an enormous amount of playful vim and vigor.
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Semyon Bychkov and the Czech Philharmonic do justice to a lot of Tchaikovsky's orchestral music, while John Eliot Gardiner and the London Symphony play Robert Schumann's famously-dense orche…
Linda Ronstadt was every young female singer's aspirational goddess: if you could nail "You're No Good" or "Blue Bayou" in the car or the shower, you had practiced a lot.
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Fontaines D.C. are gonna be big, or at least as big as a real rock band can be these days. And they're making it all look effortless.
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Julia Wolfe's Fire in my mouth is one of 2019's most memorable recordings; Donnacha Dennehy's The Hunger, a meditation on the Irish potato famine of the mid-19th-century, leaves an indelible…
