Wednesday, June 13, 2018
We will not get another Angels in America unless we demand it -- and stop accepting bogus substitutes.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:24AMMonday, May 28, 2018
Recommended hashtags for the Boston Theatre Critics Association: #MeTooGiveMeTime, #MeTooNotYet
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:42AMThursday, May 24, 2018
Joshua Sobol isn't interested in exploring dramatic possibilities but making sure his equation about the inevitable mechanics of violence work out.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:48PMWednesday, May 9, 2018
Albert Camus brings a bracing response to thinking about the worse that is missing in so many of our current dystopias.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:32PMMonday, April 30, 2018
The script is symptomatic of the Trump era: a passionate rejection of the "politically correct” pushes warriors for "freedom,” as well as voices of radicalism, into morally despicable po…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:24AMTuesday, April 10, 2018
The strategic silences in the Boston Globe's piece on the legacy of Israel Horovitz are disturbing.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:45AMFriday, April 6, 2018
We need more serious, informed, and diverse voices evaluating and reporting on the arts at a time newspapers and magazines are cutting back and/or dumbing down their arts sections.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:06PMSunday, March 18, 2018
To my surprise, the auto union was written out of the picture from the start, as if dramatist Dominique Morisseau saw it as an embarrassment.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:29AMTuesday, March 13, 2018
Steve is a satisfyingly genial comedy that brings up, but then darts quickly away from, serious issues.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:40AMWednesday, March 7, 2018
The White Card's examination of white philanthropy and racism stays well within the comfort zone.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:16PMFriday, February 23, 2018
Shange's nervy mix of wordplay and in-your-face didacticism -- of resilience in the face of hardship -- is very much the empowering thing.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:40AMMonday, February 12, 2018
It was time for a bit of a face-lift.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:30PMThursday, February 1, 2018
The publication, its editor, and its over 60 writers believe that the health of arts criticism and the arts community are inextricably intertwined.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:13AMFriday, January 12, 2018
Ada/Ava is an impressive theatrical feat that finds a new, and invigorating, way of telling a story on stage.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:37PMSunday, December 31, 2017
Some of our critics talk about the books that meant the most to them over the past year.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:12PMTuesday, December 12, 2017
Does anyone really believe that there is no sexual harassment going on in Boston area theater companies today?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:42PMMonday, December 11, 2017
Hold These Truths is an invaluable reminder that alternative facts are not a new thing.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:48PMMonday, December 4, 2017
More alarming signs that the Boston Globe‘s arts section is shedding talent.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:54AMTuesday, November 28, 2017
Critics were once seen as the 'canaries in the mineshaft' -- now newspapers and magazines are closing down the mines.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:18AMFriday, November 10, 2017
Sleeping Weazel stages a gutsy production of an angry, ugly, and essential history lesson.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:42PMThursday, November 2, 2017
Let us hope that today's revelations will be taken more seriously than charges of sexual harassment and assault were back in 1993.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:18AMMonday, October 30, 2017
Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive does an honorable service for the writer who embodied, as well as created, "The Imp of the Perverse."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:42AMFriday, October 27, 2017
We are invited to see the world through the eyes of an adolescent whose autism makes human communication and contact incredibly difficult.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:42AMFriday, October 20, 2017
An invigorating staging of Henrik Ibsen's still pertinent play about spinelessness up and down the political spectrum.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:04PMFriday, September 22, 2017
Selina Fllinger’s play manages to serve up some vivid confrontations between believers and doubters.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:48PMSaturday, September 9, 2017
Off the Grid's The Weird is content to cast a low wattage spell.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:42PMFriday, August 25, 2017
Burn all Night is a pretty damp squib coming from one of the country's major regional theaters.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:18PMThursday, August 10, 2017
American Moor is a terrific meditation on Othello and race.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:06PMWonder why Boston theater is so bland, why there is so little political resistance?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:36AMTuesday, June 20, 2017
This is an evening that, through an excess of imagination, makes as little sense as possible.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:06PMMonday, June 19, 2017
If the ballyhoo around the Public Theater's Julius Caesar is a sign of the times, then we have a lot more than Trump to fear.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:12AM 
