"Leopoldstadt" is one of Tom Stoppard's most heartfelt and expansive works, its poignant storyline inspired by events in his own life.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:24PMCinematic in inspiration, Diane Paulus's direction whips up terse bursts of adolescent energy, tapping into a cocky hunger for self-destructive combat.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:06PM"It’s not just some generic 'evil' "The Arsonists" protests, it is willful blindness to fascist and authoritarian agendas. Denial and hiding behind “bourgeois” comfort is the theme."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:06PMA relaxed, humane kindness shines through this staging of Shakespeare's hymn to reconciliation.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:42PMThe Lyric Stage Company's production of David Henry Hwang's Obie award-winning play is serviceably absorbing.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:12PMThe script is representative of the pitfalls of current theatrical minimalism -- less can so easily be less.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:06AM"We need hope in the possibility of change in order to survive what’s coming."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:24AMIf only "Becoming a Man"'s pathos were less streamlined, its theatricality more ambitious.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:36PMBy Bill Marx Must the stage only discreetly charm the bourgeoisie? “I have long argued that theater alone cannot achieve any social change,” posited the Scottish dramatist and director J…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:54PMThe time is overdue for a substantial discussion of what is happening (or not happening) in Boston-area theaters. Just don't expect to see anything in our sheepish mainstream media.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:36PMSet in New York in the mid-'50s, "Trouble in Mind" is a backstage dramedy that draws on the genre’s interest in the ambiguities of role-playing to condemn racial bias.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:02AMThe journalistic value of blathering out weekend tips to the ears of the comfortable in a social media world awash with likes is dubious.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:03PMIn "Fat Ham," Black pain and repressed desire are transformed into a celebration of liberation and empowerment -- once the villain de jure, the violent, tyrannical patriarchy, has been dispa…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:33PMDramatist Donald Margulies seems to be putting his hand on the heart of the heartland -- as well as taking the pulse of a pair of aging boomers.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:03PMCanada is far enough from New York and Broadway to ignore their siren drum beats.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:07PMFor a semi-Shavian like myself, the Shaw Festival once again proved that it was the place to be.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:55PMThis uncomplicated version of Shakespeare's tragedy comes off as a rousing tale of murder under a starlit Boston sky that obligingly lights Macbeth's "black and deep desires."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:25AMAnna Ziegler's play is based on a true story that still resonates powerfully: how science (and society) hides uncomfortable truths.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:33AMIn the Actors' Shakespeare's Project's likable staging of As You Like It, love looks pretty durable.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:13PMThe Gaaga's humor is driven by rage, anger, and disgust, emotions that are not often found in our domesticated (for easy consumption) theater scene.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:13PMHow can we create theater that practices critique and empathy in relation to climate change that simultaneously challenges and lifts us, provokes and provides a muscular hope?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:52AMIf the production sends at least some of the audience members back to the magnificent poetry of The Canterbury Tales, it would have done a mitzvah.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:53AMIt is refreshing to encounter a script that is so determined to keep audiences off-kilter as it goes about undercutting domestic business as usual.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:53AMMade in China 2.0 is valuable as an act of theatrical witnessing, the voice of a rebel who is facing considerable challenges from the powers that be.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:53AMOur theater critics pick some of the outstanding productions in a year haunted by COVID.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:32PMDo we feel the environment breakdown in our gut? Will people looking back see art that conveyed the existential threat of the emergency?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:03AMIn his virtuoso one-man show, Bill Irwin pays adroit homage to the language and vision of Samuel Beckett.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:03PMThe story has the earmarks of YA fiction: a community of dysfunctional adults contribute to the plight of alienated kids who, badgered by persecutors their own age, seek to escape their torm…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:13PMIt shouldn't be surprising that Heroes of the Fourth Turning is monotonously ironic. No happy warriors for Christ here.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:07PMShakespeare's text has been streamlined for easy consumption on a summer's evening -- there's no intermission, lots of physical comedy, and a party vibe.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:54PMThis is an indelibly zany concoction: part homage, part esprit de corps, part mediation on screwball comedy as a form of modest but invigorating cheer.
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