Tuesday, November 28, 2017
Critics were once seen as the 'canaries in the mineshaft' -- now newspapers and magazines are closing down the mines.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:18AMFriday, November 10, 2017
Sleeping Weazel stages a gutsy production of an angry, ugly, and essential history lesson.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:42PMThursday, November 2, 2017
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 11:18AMMonday, October 30, 2017
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 11:42AMFriday, October 27, 2017
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 10:42AMFriday, October 20, 2017
An invigorating staging of Henrik Ibsen's still pertinent play about spinelessness up and down the political spectrum.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:04PMFriday, September 22, 2017
Selina Fllinger’s play manages to serve up some vivid confrontations between believers and doubters.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:48PMSaturday, September 9, 2017
Off the Grid's The Weird is content to cast a low wattage spell.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:42PMFriday, August 25, 2017
Burn all Night is a pretty damp squib coming from one of the country's major regional theaters.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:18PMThursday, August 10, 2017
American Moor is a terrific meditation on Othello and race.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:06PMWonder why Boston theater is so bland, why there is so little political resistance?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:36AMTuesday, June 20, 2017
This is an evening that, through an excess of imagination, makes as little sense as possible.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:06PMMonday, June 19, 2017
If the ballyhoo around the Public Theater's Julius Caesar is a sign of the times, then we have a lot more than Trump to fear.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:12AMTuesday, June 13, 2017
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:48PMWednesday, June 7, 2017
There are just too many traumas on Hasfari's checklist, too little time allotted to dramatic depth.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:18AMMonday, May 29, 2017
My thought was that it would exciting to invite high school students from diverse backgrounds in the Boston area to become better educated about arts criticism.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:24PMMonday, May 15, 2017
Lester Bangs insisted that, at its best, rock was an act of pure rebellion, a liberation from the prison of respectability.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:18PMTuesday, April 18, 2017
Beneath Barbecue's jokes there's little but a chic cynicism.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:54AMTuesday, April 11, 2017
Ayad Akhtar's script softens up patriarchal authoritarianism by plugging it into a family comedy structure.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:24PMSaturday, March 4, 2017
The ART presents a staid production of Tennessee Williams' talky chamber play about wanderers struggling to be released from their pain.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:32PMThursday, February 23, 2017
Can the smothered idealism of the teachers be rekindled? Will the school be saved if students and faculty join together?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:42PMMonday, January 23, 2017
Praxis Stage manages to get Arthur Miller's message across, and it is a valuable one that must be repeated well beyond the inauguration.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:42PMTuesday, January 17, 2017
This is a thoroughly pedestrian production -- wobbly, uninspired, and often downright tedious.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:06PMTuesday, January 3, 2017
Why haven't American theater companies dealt seriously with climate change?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:24PMMonday, December 19, 2016
Bill Rauch and company keep the superficial contrivances hurtling along at a fast enough pace so we aren't given much time to think.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:06PMSunday, December 11, 2016
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:18PMFriday, December 9, 2016
Maybe finally we’re reaching the Natsume Soseki moment in the English-speaking world.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:42AMSaturday, December 3, 2016
There will be a public celebration of Margaret Weigel's life on December 9 at Medford's Chevalier Theater.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:48PMSaturday, November 19, 2016
There's nothing here to challenge the status quo, just an amiable 'sex' comedy about characters who aren't getting any.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:24AMTuesday, November 15, 2016
Many of today's arts editors and reviewers embrace a lilliputian vision of arts criticism; they accept a crabbed sense of its possibilities.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:24AMFriday, November 11, 2016
"I have always been a fan of horror movies, and I’m sure that was part of the attraction to me."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:48AM 
