J. P. Priestly's shallow characterizations keep his vision of moneyed skullduggery mundane rather than monstrous. The post Theater Review: "An Inspector Calls" " Class Downfall appeared firs…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:29AM[SHARE]The Lyric Stage Company's The Little Foxes is taut, tense, and eerily reflective of our own uneasy, pernicious times. The post Theater Review: "The Little Foxes" " American Greed Triumphant …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:23PM[SHARE]In Garciela Iturbide's photographs, the living and the dying are often joined at the (exposed) skeletal hip. The post Visual Arts Review: “Graciela Iturbide's Mexico” — Cas…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:32AM[SHARE]Diane Williams's brusque vision of a perverse life force mesmerizes.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:06PM[SHARE]Leonard Cohen reinforces this dedication to lyricism with striking humility in his final book.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:42PM[SHARE]This musical hodgepodge at the American Repertory Theater could be called 'Let's Sing About Me (and Me, and Then More About Me).'
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:36PM[SHARE]Producers are tapping into a specific demographic: predominantly white audiences that are flush and who crave the thrill of hearing " and seeing " their favorite tunes performed live.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:54AM[SHARE]This is an opportunity to take in the early stirrings of Tennessee Williams' talent as a playwright.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:06PM[SHARE]Given what Olga Tokarczuk is curious about, it is not surprising that her book serves up its share of goofy humor.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:48AM[SHARE]The Black Clown commands the vastness of the Loeb's stage with an enviable energy.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:32PM[SHARE]There are 170 recipes in King Solomon's Table . Joan Nathan, a sort of culinary archeologist, tracks down the details of their origins to Biblical times.Â
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:36AM[SHARE]A newly published book of translations and two upcoming Boston-area stage productions confirms the enduring elemental power of Federico GarcÃa Lorca.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:24AM[SHARE]Fall's conflict is presented with insufficient power; its domestic tragedy is not propelled along its inevitably troubling course.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:32PM[SHARE]A resplendent and spirited revival of The Sound of Music in downtown Boston.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:48AM[SHARE]But, amidst all this excitement, there was an undertow of concern in the crowd at this year's IRNE Awards.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:24PM[SHARE]In The Humans, Stephen Karam suggest that America can be a Heaven that in a moment, might flip into Hell.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:19PM[SHARE]"You can be certain that when the show begins and you hear 'Mack the Knife,' there will be scenes of slashing and murdering."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:58PM[SHARE]Adrianne Krstansky, a marvelous actress, understandably exhibits signs of the strain of having to carry the entire production on her shoulders.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:13AM[SHARE]The late Larry Coen was a mainstay in Boston theater.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:35AM[SHARE]Despite its drawbacks, this is a powerful production that speaks to what is happening today.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:14AM[SHARE]When it comes to helping artists make a living, social media turns out to be a mixed blessing.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:05AM[SHARE]Reading Nikki Giovanni, one is inspired to never cower, to never beg, to never surrender.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:48PM[SHARE]The bottom line is that we simply aren't given a requisite sense of the play's embrace of tragedy.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:18AM[SHARE]"Both poet/playwrights wrote with the same swings between tragedy and farce we live with now in America."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:06AM[SHARE]Men on Boats is a sometimes rollicking, at other times tedious, one-act play.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:24PM[SHARE]Israel Horovitz's latest play delivers some fine moments of comedy as well as some dark revelations about female neediness.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:42PM[SHARE]Throughout Sam Shepard's oeuvre one can find ample evidence of his struggles with demons, some of them distinctively American.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:24AM[SHARE]Fresh Ink Theatre is to be applauded for taking risks, for daring to mix it all up, for giving audiences a taste of what theater, shelter-skelter version, can be.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:06AM[SHARE]Yes, Ripcord is candied, but there's just enough astringency blended in to make the sugar sufficiently tangy.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:48PM[SHARE]The talented SpeakEasy Stage ensemble offers enough harmonious pizazz to make up for the musical 's erotic fizzle.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:42AM[SHARE]In the remarkable images of Henryk Ross, Nazi evil is exposed through a kind of heroic voyeurism.
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