Will 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 11:48PM[SHARE]Diverting 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 06:24PM[SHARE]This 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[SHARE]"Our film has community and spirituality," says Amy Geller. "It also has conflict."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:48AM[SHARE]We will not get another Angels in America unless we demand it  -- and stop accepting bogus substitutes.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:24AM[SHARE]Recommended hashtags for the Boston Theatre Critics Association: #MeTooGiveMeTime, #MeTooNotYet
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:42AM[SHARE]Joshua Sobol isn't interested in exploring dramatic possibilities but making sure his equation about the inevitable mechanics of violence work out.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:48PM[SHARE]Albert Camus brings a bracing response to thinking about the worse that is missing in so many of our current dystopias.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:32PM[SHARE]The script is symptomatic of the Trump era: a passionate rejection of the "politically correct" pushes warriors for "freedom," as well as voices of radicalism, into morally despicable positi…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:24AM[SHARE]The strategic silences in the Boston Globe's piece on the legacy of Israel Horovitz are disturbing.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:45AM[SHARE]We need more serious, informed, and diverse voices evaluating and reporting on the arts at a time newspapers and magazines are cutting back and/or dumbing down their arts sections.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:06PM[SHARE]To my surprise, the auto union was written out of the picture from the start, as if dramatist Dominique Morisseau saw it as an embarrassment.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:29AM[SHARE]Steve is a satisfyingly genial comedy that brings up, but then darts quickly away from, serious issues.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:40AM[SHARE]The White Card's examination of white philanthropy and racism stays well within the comfort zone.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:16PM[SHARE]Shange's nervy mix of wordplay and in-your-face didacticism -- of resilience in the face of hardship -- is very much the empowering thing.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:40AM[SHARE]It was time for a bit of a face-lift.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:30PM[SHARE]The publication, its editor, and its over 60 writers believe that the health of arts criticism and the arts community are inextricably intertwined.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:13AM[SHARE]Ada/Ava is an impressive theatrical feat that finds a new, and invigorating, way of telling a story on stage.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:37PM[SHARE]Some of our critics talk about the books that meant the most to them over the past year.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:12PM[SHARE]Does anyone really believe that there is no sexual harassment going on in Boston area theater companies today?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:42PM[SHARE]Hold These Truths is an invaluable reminder that alternative facts are not a new thing.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:48PM[SHARE]More alarming signs that the Boston Globe's arts section is shedding talent.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:54AM[SHARE]Critics were once seen as the 'canaries in the mineshaft' -- now newspapers and magazines are closing down the mines.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:18AM[SHARE]Sleeping Weazel stages a gutsy production of an angry, ugly, and essential history lesson.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:42PM[SHARE]Let us hope that today's revelations will be taken more seriously than charges of sexual harassment and assault were back in 1993.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:18AM[SHARE]Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive does an honorable service for the writer who embodied, as well as created, "The Imp of the Perverse."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:42AM[SHARE]We are invited to see the world through the eyes of an adolescent whose autism makes human communication and contact incredibly difficult.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:42AM[SHARE]An invigorating staging of Henrik Ibsen's still pertinent play about spinelessness up and down the political spectrum.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:04PM[SHARE]Selina Fllinger's play manages to serve up some vivid confrontations between believers and doubters.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:48PM[SHARE]Off the Grid's The Weird is content to cast a low wattage spell.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:42PM[SHARE]Burn all Night is a pretty damp squib coming from one of the country's major regional theaters.
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