Tuesday, 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
I ask you to consider contributing to The Arts Fuse so that we can continue to be an indispensible part of the Boston arts landscape.
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 09:48AMMonday, October 10, 2016
The standard view of Kafka reduces him to the patron saint of neurotics.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:46PMMonday, 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 03:10PMWednesday, 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 02:48PMMonday, 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 09:12AMTuesday, 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 06:52PMWednesday, 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 10:40AMTuesday, 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 11:26AMWednesday, 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 03:13PMMonday, August 1, 2016
There is much to like in this outdoor production of Love's Labor's Lost -- the time passes by quickly and there are plenty of smiles along the way.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:26AMMonday, June 27, 2016
The Globe tells us that we will be gaining compelling stories. What are we losing? Invitations to think seriously about artistic accomplishment and failure.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:43AMThursday, June 16, 2016
A.O. Scott's hurrah for criticism should be savored by anyone interested in the connections between the health of the arts and the ways we articulate their value.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:55PMThursday, June 9, 2016
The Arts Fuse is developing a new initiative: the Arts Critic Mentorship Program and celebrates turning nine!
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:37AMThursday, June 2, 2016
"What other play culminates in such a frenzy of emotion and joy and love all in a moment on stage?"
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:03AMMonday, May 30, 2016
Library of America's anthology War No More explores a distinctively American tradition of antimilitarism.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:00AMWednesday, May 25, 2016
This is a rich evening of theater because it takes up social and psychological problems that aren't ordinarily addressed on our stages.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:22AMFriday, May 13, 2016
RoosevElvis turns out to a sort of slaphappy homage to two American legends, a genial romp that sticks to stereotypes.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:09AMWednesday, May 11, 2016
A Great Wilderness dramatizes the plight of a believer who is forced to face a powerful truth about himself -- that he has probably wasted his life.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:58AMSaturday, April 23, 2016
The School for Scandal hasn't dated a jot: put Snake, Mrs. Candour, and Mrs. Sneerwell on Facebook and watch civilizations totter.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:30PMTuesday, March 22, 2016
Socialism is no longer a discredited word, and Fo brings an impish sense of divine comedy to the clash between the haves and the have nots.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:07PMMonday, February 15, 2016
There's nothing wrong with preaching the value of empathy -- but who would argue?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:04PMSaturday, February 13, 2016
"Even in a terrain as epic and mythic and exotic as the Sahara, you cannot run away from the weight of your past."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:00PMMonday, February 1, 2016
Audiences are always shocked by Body & Sold.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:44AM 
