Friday, February 23, 2018
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 09:40AMMonday, February 12, 2018
It was time for a bit of a face-lift.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:30PMThursday, February 1, 2018
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 08:13AMFriday, January 12, 2018
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 04:37PMSunday, December 31, 2017
Some of our critics talk about the books that meant the most to them over the past year.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:12PMTuesday, December 12, 2017
Does anyone really believe that there is no sexual harassment going on in Boston area theater companies today?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:42PMMonday, December 11, 2017
Hold These Truths is an invaluable reminder that alternative facts are not a new thing.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:48PMMonday, December 4, 2017
More alarming signs that the Boston Globe‘s arts section is shedding talent.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:54AMTuesday, 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
THE ARTS FUSE TURNS TEN! Help sustain substantial critical coverage of the arts. By Bill Marx TEN YEARS of The Arts Fuse! Over four thousand reviews, commentaries, and features on arts and c…
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 06:06PM 
