Friday, 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 04:18PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 10, 2017
Wonder why Boston theater is so bland, why there is so little political resistance?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:36AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 20, 2017
This is an evening that, through an excess of imagination, makes as little sense as possible.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:06PM[SHARE]Monday, 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 10:12AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 06:48PM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 11:18AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 04:24PM[SHARE]Monday, 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 02:18PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 18, 2017
Tuesday, April 11, 2017
Ayad Akhtar's script softens up patriarchal authoritarianism by plugging it into a family comedy structure.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:24PM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 12:32PM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 03:42PM[SHARE]Monday, 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 02:42PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 17, 2017
This is a thoroughly pedestrian production -- wobbly, uninspired, and often downright tedious.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:06PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 3, 2017
Why haven't American theater companies dealt seriously with climate change?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:24PM[SHARE]Monday, 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 12:06PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 11, 2016
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:18PM[SHARE]Friday, December 9, 2016
Maybe finally we're reaching the Natsume Soseki moment in the English-speaking world.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:42AM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 01:48PM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 10:24AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 10:24AM[SHARE]Friday, 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[SHARE]Monday, October 10, 2016
The standard view of Kafka reduces him to the patron saint of neurotics.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:46PM[SHARE]Monday, October 3, 2016
Is truth and beauty served when the arts just take the money from the big banks and run?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:10PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 28, 2016
We're reminding everyone that fighting corruption and injustice is hard work, but it can be fun as hell too.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:48PM[SHARE]Monday, September 26, 2016
"The purpose of the film is to take the audience on what I hope will be a riveting, challenging, and ultimately uplifting journey into the world of human trafficking."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:12AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 20, 2016
This is a satisfying if limited production; the Harbor Stage Company is a troupe that is well worth keeping an eye on.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:52PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 7, 2016
There is little doubt in my mind that this powerful production of Blasted will be one of the high points in Boston theater this year.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:40AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 6, 2016
The hope is that nobody will notice that arts criticism hasn't been invited to the Pulitzer Prize's centennial party.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:26AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 31, 2016
Among the driving forces behind Anna Deveare Smith's latest solo work is a call to strengthen "our collective capacity for action."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:13PM[SHARE] 
