For all of its sound and fury and smoke, the CSC's version of King Lear is solid rather than surprising or exciting.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:54AM[SHARE]In Kinship, dramatist Carey Perloff hasn't found a language that conveys irrational longing.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:02PM[SHARE]Those who care about the future of American arts and culture should financially support this magazine and other valiant efforts to articulate the significance of the arts.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:41PM[SHARE]An amiable musical revue about two guys who kick up their heels after global warming finally boils over.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:47PM[SHARE]Congratulations to the nominees and the awardees.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:03PM[SHARE]God speed Chairman Chu on her mission to make the fine arts less marginalized in a determinedly bottom line culture, obsessed with the pragmatic rather than the imaginative.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:06AM[SHARE]Had Daniil Kharms' texts been available at the high tide of the Theater of the Absurd, his plays would be performed alongside those of Samuel Beckett and Eugene Ionesco.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:58PM[SHARE]"The aspiration in presenting these works together is that a more rounded comprehension of Jack Kerouac might finally be realized or acknowledged by both general readers and scholars."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:24PM[SHARE]This wonder work from Canadian director Robert Lepage isn't here for much time, alas.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:56PM[SHARE]Where are the theaters that are bold enough to stage challenging and risky dramas about race? Not just talk the talk.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:39PM[SHARE]After reading the supposedly offensive article in the American Mercury, the judge said: "No one but a moron could be affected by it."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:36PM[SHARE]The Lyric Stage is presenting a moving production of Lynn Nottage's cautionary tale about strength of character tragically misdirected.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:04PM[SHARE]Over the next two decades, slow-creeping climate change is coming to the arts in America -- the arctic ice on which the creative class stands is melting.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:10PM[SHARE]May Father Comes Home From the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3) fill the Loeb Drama Center to the brim and then some.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:12PM[SHARE]Tristana is Ibsen's Doll's House played as a gaunt farce, a vision of feminism as icy egotism rather than individual liberation.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:38PM[SHARE]"It's not depressing to be told that writers and artists are getting screwed. It's our daily reality."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:27PM[SHARE]"The pain depicted on stage must cut to the bone, inspire a seemingly impossible empathy within me, within the audience."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:43PM[SHARE]"My first order of business is to do a listening tour. I will have the same question for everyone I meet: what do you need to do your work?"
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:58PM[SHARE]Theodore Dreiser's The Titan is not the greatest novel about American business, but it is still among the best, an honorable runner-up that turned 100 this year.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:19AM[SHARE]Fuse theater critics pick some of the outstanding productions of the year.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:36AM[SHARE]Why does The Arts Fuse keep growing? Because there is an audience for thoughtful coverage of the arts -- but we need support from our readers to keep us healthy.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:41PM[SHARE]In this fiction and plays, Thomas Bernhard creates fascinatingly repugnant monsters, black holes of egotism that are symptomatic of our spiritual and moral myopia.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:02PM[SHARE]The Old Man and The Old Moon is pleasing, but just how theatrically satisfying it is depends on the appeal of 'magical' folktales, the kind where anything goes.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:59AM[SHARE]Ether Dome is nothing if not ironic: a dire need for relief generates a mess of pain.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:20PM[SHARE]The tragedy of King Lear never takes hold because you know that soon someone is going to pick up an accordion and with a 'Hey, Nonny Nonny' dance those blues away.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:42PM[SHARE]"The Boston Book Festival is doing really well. It feels like an established part of Boston's cultural scene."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:55AM[SHARE]Imaginary Beasts is to be congratulated for bringing public attention to the brilliant, idiosyncratic-to--the-max-and-beyond work of Daniil Kharms, a writer silenced by Stalin.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:57PM[SHARE]Serbian writer David Albahari's fascination with uncertainty fuels a grim, sardonic tragi-comedy in which silence plays an elemental but enigmatic role.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:17PM[SHARE]When it comes to race relations, America has a lot on its plate -- there is no good reason to serve leftovers.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:33PM[SHARE]We intend to stage work by all the living American poets we can lure into our sphere: starting right here in Cambridge.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:17AM[SHARE]Today's increasingly corporate-approved theater stays within safe, civic-minded boundaries.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:21PM[SHARE]
