Friday, March 17, 2017
In the remarkable images of Henryk Ross, Nazi evil is exposed through a kind of heroic voyeurism.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:54PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 8, 2017
Grand Concourse does wondrous things: it encourages us ponder our own growth toward faith while emphasizing with the struggles of others.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:12PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 27, 2016
This excellent film version of the play Fences meets (even exceeds) the considerable demands of August Wilson's script.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:54AM[SHARE]Friday, December 9, 2016
These posthumous volumes provide ample proof that poet Philip Levine was far more than a proletariat troubadour.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:06PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 29, 2016
Tiger Style! blows by like a whirlwind -- wordy, frivolous, and ultimately unsatisfying.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:12AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 25, 2016
Friday, September 30, 2016
This is a galvanic production that stirs the spirit and demands that we reflect on what the script says about our own time, our own struggles.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:21PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 29, 2016
"If you'll excuse me for being cheeky, it's a collaboration between the players on stage and Beckett's works."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:16AM[SHARE]Friday, September 23, 2016
Yes, another circus show has come to town with players who display breath-taking athleticism in all its cheeky glory.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:54AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 17, 2016
Once Eugene O'Neill and Tennessee Williams achieved success, they wanted to take on themes in their plays that challenged audiences.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:03AM[SHARE]Monday, September 5, 2016
There's a lot of love in the Lyric Stage Company's production of Stephen Sondheim's 1970 Tony Award winning show, Company.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:01PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 9, 2016
Summer theater musicals often accentuate the frivolous, but the GSC production of Songs for a New World demands more.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:13AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 30, 2016
"Circus artists aren't the best actors," Shana Carroll notes, "it's not their thing."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:30AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 31, 2016
Audiences for Liz Callaway can expect to hear faithful interpretations of these now familiar hit songs, but also expect the unexpected.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:18PM[SHARE]Friday, April 22, 2016
Based on a graphic novel, the brilliant Historia de Amor is unrelenting in its darkness. It's as if we're swimming in a pool of India ink.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:39AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 12, 2016
Let no one accuse the Boston theater community of being moribund.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:54PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 22, 2016
Bootycandy is sharp-witted and entertaining -- but thoroughly sugary.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:18PM[SHARE]Monday, March 14, 2016
August Wilson's dramatized autobiography, thanks to the magnificent actor Eugene Lee, is a stirring experience.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:16PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 27, 2016
Mavis Staples' voice and stage presence still exude power, still plumb emotional and spiritual depths.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:15AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 19, 2016
The New York Times columns selected for Think Again are engaging, provocative, maddening, humorous, and insightful.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:06AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 10, 2016
Via Dolorosa is essentially a work of reportage: it would have been more effective if it had taken the form of a travel essay rather than a performance piece.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:03PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 8, 2015
This one-man comic extravaganza about the dizzying spell of celebrity is a welcome respite from the annual bombardment of holiday joyrides.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:56AM[SHARE]Monday, November 16, 2015
A bewitching South African version of Bizet's opera -- performed with a distinctive blend of spunk and sass.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:56AM[SHARE]Monday, November 2, 2015
Casa Valentina's dramatic weight comes from how skillfully the cast explores the tensions that swirl about the subject of who is gay, who is straight, and what is legal.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:28AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 27, 2015
A Measure of Normalcy pays more attention to its many themes than its characterizations..
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:53AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 11, 2015
Meow Meow milks the audience for applause so often it feels as if we are seated on stools in a dairy barn.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:33PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 6, 2015
Matthew Teitelbaum, 59, may be among the most reluctant employees the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston has hired.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:13PM[SHARE]Monday, September 21, 2015
Gloucester Blue is a lively play whose glow is generated by the spirited, tragicomic performances of a cast that obviously delights in performing it.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:09PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 19, 2015
In appropriate, a talented young playwright turns mischievous literary homage into a work of exhilarating entertainment.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:01PM[SHARE]Monday, August 24, 2015
You should see GSC's The Flick, but be warned that the drama works in spurts and starts
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:04PM[SHARE]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] 
