Tuesday, August 4, 2015
James Tate remains true to himself. These prose-poems are often stellar, harrowingly distinctive, and worthy of repeat visits.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:08PM[SHARE]Friday, July 31, 2015
Like Sanuel Beckett, Enda Walsh does not ignore the tenderness that flourishes, often under the duress of absurdity.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:32AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 22, 2015
While 887 explores the political, historical, and cultural ramifications of centuries-old racism, Robert Lepage never pander to victim mentality polemics.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:38AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 4, 2015
Thursday, June 25, 2015
The Aga Khan Museum should also be appreciated as a source of inspiration at a time when the civilization that produced its art has become horrifically vulnerable.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:15PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 16, 2015
Richard Nelson does not compel us to pay attention to his characters' psychological disclosures, and his reluctance to underline is refreshing.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:50PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 16, 2015
Mothers & Sons raises important questions about struggle, acceptance, and love, dramatizing battles that are still being waged.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:21PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 14, 2015
Despite the well-intentioned efforts of the cast, Eli Wiesel's words were lost in space.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:54AM[SHARE]Monday, March 30, 2015
"It is just when we delve deeper into the sorrows of our lives, the sorrows we have all endured, that our humor saves us."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:11AM[SHARE]Monday, March 16, 2015
Culture Clash's view of America will discomfort, which is all the more reason that I urge you -- strongly -- to attend.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:46AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 1, 2015
To call the American Visionary Art Museum quirky would be an understatement: therein lies its charm as well as one of the reason for its success, even in economic hard times.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:41AM[SHARE]Friday, December 12, 2014
Attempting to dig underneath our protective psychic skins to get at the festering Ids within, John Kuntz would like Necessary Monsters to mesh laughter and fright, comedy and horror.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:11PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 1, 2014
Galway Kinnell served as the Poet Laureate of Vermont and penned a number of poems, which often took the form of pastoral ramblings, that celebrated his appreciation of the rural life.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:23AM[SHARE]Friday, October 31, 2014
Joshua Harmon steers his play to the middle ground where his two lead characters " representing polar opposites, cultural versus religious Judaism " ultimately exhaust one another, and us.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:36AM[SHARE]Friday, October 17, 2014
Pride is poignant celebration of the power of the human element, a carefully layered tale of solidarity.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:20PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 4, 2014
The more-than-satisfactory appeal of Traces is to see these gifted athletes perform time-honored circus skills - the attempt to make the performers look like televised rock stars falls flat.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:10AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 26, 2014
Director Eric C. Engel and the Gloucester Stage Company cast gives Fences an insightful and nuanced production.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:53AM[SHARE]Monday, August 4, 2014
4000 Miles is a showcase for dramatist Amy Herzog's quirky sensibilities and canny insights into family dynamics.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:00PM[SHARE]Friday, June 13, 2014
The Tony accolades bestowed upon A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, will no doubt assure Darko Tresnjak's future on Broadway.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:04AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 31, 2014
Women are the dominant force in "Amaluna." They command the evening's whirligig of a stage as aerialists, clowns, musicians, dancers, and contortionists.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:34AM[SHARE]Friday, May 23, 2014
"Abe Lincoln's Piano" does not evoke in us the same sense of astonishment that Hershey Felder feels toward his antiquarian discoveries; his personal serendipities remain dramatically elusive.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:02AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 17, 2014
Pianist, actor, director and consummate storyteller Hershey Felder returns to Boston in a one-man show entitled Abe Lincoln's Piano.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:35PM[SHARE]Friday, May 2, 2014
Tuesday, April 22, 2014
What makes "The Wholehearted" compelling is how it examines the metaphor of fighting as both a pubic career and as an aspect of domestic violence.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:26AM[SHARE]Friday, January 31, 2014
"House/Divided" " a mélange of dazzling videography, startling and inventive lighting/props/stage craft, and spoken snippets of John Steinbeck's quasi-Biblical prose " does not add anything…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:07PM[SHARE]Monday, January 6, 2014
The challenges of this musical are to keep things buoyant yet insightful (and with some backbone) about a subject many of us dread, namely work and its drudgery.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:33AM[SHARE]Monday, December 16, 2013
This expansive biography of Ted Williams is not awash in sentimentally, thanks to Ben Bradlee's praiseworthy search for the facts, no matter where they lead, and his command of language, hon…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:09AM[SHARE]Saturday, December 7, 2013
"Becky's New Car" turns out to be a ride worth taking, especially if we suspend our disbelief long enough to embrace the notion that malice is not necessarily aforethought even though our ac…
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