"There's a giant chip on the shoulder of those who love musics of the world when it comes to klezmer." The post Music Interview: Klezmer Clarinettist Michael Winograd Does “Kosher Style”…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:18PMCan anyone -- with a straight face -- argue that our largely white critical contingent in Boston is interested in generating hard hitting debate, controversy, and unconventional ideas? The …
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:54AMThe media big boys should be part of the discussion, if only because they have the resources to change the situation for the better. The post Theater Commentary: An Open Letter — to the �…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:03PMThe BTCA should take action in support of #MeToo. The post Theater Commentary: The Boston Theater Critics Association — Still Evaluating? appeared first on The Arts Fuse.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:03AMPrecious few independent online arts publications make it to double digits. Please give us the resources we need to persevere at an essential cultural task. The post THE ARTS FUSE TURNS TWEL…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:18PM"ignorance about those who have disappeared/ undermines the reality of the world." -- Zbigniew Herbert The post Theater Review: “Cardboard Piano” — Pay Witness appeared first on The Ar…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:29PMMainstream environmentalism is not just serious and sanctimonious, it also happens to be very white and very heteronormative. The post Book Interview: “Bad Environmentalism” — Laughing…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:20PMThe playwright supplies a memorable encounter between young and old in the play's final scene, but it is too late to compensate for the superficiality of the Pirandello-lite antics that have…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:28AMIs there a disconnect between artists and meaningful resistance movements? The post Commentary/Interview: “Du Bois’s Telegram” — Restricting Literary Resistance appeared first on The…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:42AMThe generally enjoyable Bedlam production of Pygmalion doesn't quite settle for the glucose bait. The post Theater Review: Bedlam’s “Pygmalion” — An Enjoyable Excursi…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:42PMI strongly advise you to explore the wizardry of Manual Cinema -- its potential is considerable. The post Theater Review: Two Cheers for Manual Cinema’s”The End of TV” app…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:54PMThis is yet another sentimental exercise in the mechanics of mother/daughter rapprochement
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:42PMA Doll's House, Part 2 comes off as a return to the barn -- after the door has fallen off its hinges.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:32PMDespite its promising premise, Bess Wohl's script is yet another wan exercise in genial domestic comedy.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:36AMHelp sustain an endangered species -- substantial critical coverage of the arts.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:32PMPeter Brook has decided to be more than a little stubbornly anti-theatrical in The Prisoner.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:48PMThe moral of Jen Silverman's yarn is straightforward enough: we are in a country where self-transformation has become an end in itself, re-invention a default response to omnipresent banalit…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:18PMYes, The New Yorker cover pillories the superrich as they ignore the pixie proletariat at their feet. But so what?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:42PMThe Peculiar Patriot may say it is about making us feel the human price of mass incarceration in America, but there is more than a little True Romance in the mix.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:56AMTaylor Mac and Pirandello share the same goal: reveal the deadening vacuity at the heart of bourgeois society and the male ego.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:42PMThe old questions, good as they are, are going to be augmented with new ones: Are we creating a world worth living in? Are we creating a world we can continue to live in?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:42AMEleanor Burgess' The Niceties is an articulate, if structurally crabbed, expression of #blacklivesmatter anger as well as a millennial rebel yell.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:48PMThe Beau Jest Moving Theater staging succeeds at conjuring up the genially comic spirit of the late Larry Coen, a bounteously talented actor and director.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:48AM"If solutions are hard to come by -- both in terms of the socioeconomic predicament of contemporary jazz, and for American culture more generally -- this is because they derive from such fun…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:06PMThree theaters in the Berkshires offer differing views of the past.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:06PMWill working with audiences encourage stage companies and theater artists to go beyond the status quo? Or just cement them into the sweet spot?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:48PMDiverting the resources of Boston's regional theaters into the casino of Broadway undercuts the ideals that launched the regional theater movement.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:24PMThis Midsummer Night's Dream is a pleasant enough entertainment that is helped mightily by the bucolic waterfront setting.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:04PM“Our film has community and spirituality,” says Amy Geller. “It also has conflict.”
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:48AMWe will not get another Angels in America unless we demand it -- and stop accepting bogus substitutes.
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