Monday, February 1, 2016
Audiences are always shocked by Body & Sold.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:44AMFriday, January 29, 2016
Nice Fish serves up a deliciously droll brand of American existentialism.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:35PMSaturday, January 16, 2016
In the theater, sentiment must be earned – Violet is moving and likable, but its pathos are skin deep.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:52PMMonday, December 14, 2015
A genuine satirist kicks against all the pricks, relishing that he or she might challenge rather than placate audiences.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:14PMWednesday, December 9, 2015
The concert "is not about any political or religious statement, it is simply about human beings wanting to give a helping hand to other human beings."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:31AMMonday, December 7, 2015
"Mostly I want people to enjoy a feast of language, imagery, story, and the power of the actor to incite the imagination."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:43PMSunday, November 22, 2015
The Huntington Theatre Company is giving Jeffrey Hatcher’s stage adaptation of the celebrated comic novel a congenial production.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:09PMFriday, October 30, 2015
It is hard to figure out just what playwright Winnie Holzman is up to in Choice: is this a supernatural sit-com?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:56PMFriday, October 16, 2015
The Library of America has done its part to applaud Arthur Miller's 100th birthday with a handsome 3-volume set of his plays.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:05PMFriday, October 9, 2015
Bridge Rep Theater director Olivia D'Ambrosio has not taken message-mongering to heart in this lively production of a rarely produced play.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:08AMMonday, September 28, 2015
It is no longer enough for a playwright to go into the belly of the 'beast' and pray for help.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:37PMFriday, September 18, 2015
Thursday, September 10, 2015
The things that go bump in the night are a pretty gooey lot in Ghost Quartet.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:14PMWednesday, September 9, 2015
"When we turn so crass and commercial that we have lost our way, Samuel Beckett will be rediscovered as the way back."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:49AMFriday, August 14, 2015
"Arts journalism should meet the same high standard as other forms of writing but rarely does, even in the good old days."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:39PMThursday, August 13, 2015
"For artists involved in doing ensemble devising, there is tremendous value in the creative challenge on every level of seeing how high and how far you can go as an artist."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:04PMSunday, August 2, 2015
For all of its sound and fury and smoke, the CSC's version of King Lear is solid rather than surprising or exciting.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:54AMWednesday, July 22, 2015
In Kinship, dramatist Carey Perloff hasn't found a language that conveys irrational longing.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:02PMWednesday, July 8, 2015
Those who care about the future of American arts and culture should financially support this magazine and other valiant efforts to articulate the significance of the arts.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:41PMWednesday, May 20, 2015
An amiable musical revue about two guys who kick up their heels after global warming finally boils over.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:47PMTuesday, May 12, 2015
Congratulations to the nominees and the awardees.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:03PMWednesday, May 6, 2015
God speed Chairman Chu on her mission to make the fine arts less marginalized in a determinedly bottom line culture, obsessed with the pragmatic rather than the imaginative.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:06AMSunday, April 26, 2015
Had Daniil Kharms' texts been available at the high tide of the Theater of the Absurd, his plays would be performed alongside those of Samuel Beckett and Eugene Ionesco.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:58PMMonday, April 20, 2015
"The aspiration in presenting these works together is that a more rounded comprehension of Jack Kerouac might finally be realized or acknowledged by both general readers and scholars."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:24PMFriday, April 10, 2015
This wonder work from Canadian director Robert Lepage isn't here for much time, alas.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:56PMSunday, April 5, 2015
Where are the theaters that are bold enough to stage challenging and risky dramas about race? Not just talk the talk.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:39PMAfter reading the supposedly offensive article in the American Mercury, the judge said: "No one but a moron could be affected by it."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:36PMMonday, March 2, 2015
The Lyric Stage is presenting a moving production of Lynn Nottage's cautionary tale about strength of character tragically misdirected.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:04PMMonday, February 23, 2015
Over the next two decades, slow-creeping climate change is coming to the arts in America -- the arctic ice on which the creative class stands is melting.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:10PMWednesday, February 4, 2015
May Father Comes Home From the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3) fill the Loeb Drama Center to the brim and then some.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:12PMTuesday, January 27, 2015
Tristana is Ibsen's Doll's House played as a gaunt farce, a vision of feminism as icy egotism rather than individual liberation.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:38PM 
