Friday, November 21, 2014
The Old Man and The Old Moon is pleasing, but just how theatrically satisfying it is depends on the appeal of 'magical' folktales, the kind where anything goes.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:59AMTuesday, October 28, 2014
Ether Dome is nothing if not ironic: a dire need for relief generates a mess of pain.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:20PMMonday, October 20, 2014
The tragedy of King Lear never takes hold because you know that soon someone is going to pick up an accordion and with a 'Hey, Nonny Nonny' dance those blues away.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:42PMSaturday, October 18, 2014
"The Boston Book Festival is doing really well. It feels like an established part of Boston’s cultural scene."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:55AMTuesday, October 7, 2014
Imaginary Beasts is to be congratulated for bringing public attention to the brilliant, idiosyncratic-to--the-max-and-beyond work of Daniil Kharms, a writer silenced by Stalin.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:57PMThursday, September 18, 2014
Serbian writer David Albahari's fascination with uncertainty fuels a grim, sardonic tragi-comedy in which silence plays an elemental but enigmatic role.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:17PMThursday, September 11, 2014
When it comes to race relations, America has a lot on its plate -- there is no good reason to serve leftovers.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:33PMSaturday, September 6, 2014
We intend to stage work by all the living American poets we can lure into our sphere: starting right here in Cambridge.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:17AMThursday, September 4, 2014
Today's increasingly corporate-approved theater stays within safe, civic-minded boundaries.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:21PMSaturday, August 23, 2014
Despite commentary to the contrary, Jonathan Blumhofer thinks that in the negotiations between the Met management and the unions there was a winner and a loser.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:46PMWednesday, August 13, 2014
Fighting for the intellectual integrity and independence of arts reviews means demanding more analysis and less sales talk.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:33PMSunday, August 10, 2014
Clocking in at around three hours, the show is a surreal grab bag filled with gags, skits, and sketches, the whole kooky kit and kaboodle tied up (too) neatly in a paranoid ribbon.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:25PMMonday, August 4, 2014
Stage coverage at the Boston Globe/NPR brain trust is generally dedicated to serving the rich and the trendy -- the publicity gum drop for Finding Neverland the latest evidence that the fix …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:39AMSaturday, August 2, 2014
There are laughs in this production of Twelfth Night, but the romantic payoffs are somewhat scarce, perhaps because the sit-com rhythms tend to swamp all else (including some of the poetry).
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:22PMFriday, July 25, 2014
A major regional theater is turning itself into a launching pad for Broadway/Las Vegas blockbusters, with Hollywood pouring cash and advice into pipeline. .
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:35PMWednesday, June 25, 2014
Until now, the powerful economic reality spotlighted by The Arts Factor has generally been ignored or dismissed as anecdotal.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:37AMThursday, June 19, 2014
We have lots of plans to expand our readership and reach, to build new ways for our readers to read our online arts magazine. But we need some more resources and support to make this happen.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:31PMFriday, June 13, 2014
Critic Eric Bentley valued the theater of audacity above all, and that is just what is on glorious display in Trinity Rep's marvelously nervy A Lie of the Mind.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:19AMMonday, June 9, 2014
Lydia R. Diamond’s Smart People is an amusing takedown of our “post-racial” world, and it is receiving a snappy, well-acted production via the Huntington Theatre Company.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:41PMSunday, June 8, 2014
We do it for the joy and communitas of making theater together much as we do for responding to the world around us through art.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:23AMThursday, May 22, 2014
Tadeusz Różewicz's best poems are blunt hammer strokes that pound at the impossibility of crafting poetry true to the sins of history.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:26AMFriday, May 16, 2014
Is it the Bard or a magic show? The prestidigitation pretty well wins out given the wanness of the dramatic proceedings.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:37PMTuesday, May 13, 2014
Dramatically speaking, Sontag: Reborn fails to treat a flawed iconoclast with the necessary creative playfulness. Hush, Saint Susan Aborning!
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:18PMThursday, May 8, 2014
It is encouraging to see new plays that tackle substantial social problems.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:28AMThursday, May 1, 2014
"Americans have been most drawn to the great tragedies—in our classroom and on our stages. "
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:43AMFriday, April 25, 2014
"Nothing Like the Sun" remains, for my money, among the best works of fiction inspired by Shakespeare's life.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:32AMWednesday, April 16, 2014
Dramatist Melinda Lopez's "Becoming Cuba" holds your attention even after you see just where it is going and why.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:39PMMonday, April 7, 2014
"Buster Keaton's imagination and ideas are more surrealistic than Chaplin's, and his stunts are astonishing in terms of their demanding technique, even today".
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:07PMTuesday, April 1, 2014
"I love Fats Waller. Fats Waller will always be here because he is simply that magnetic a person(a)."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:08AMTuesday, March 25, 2014
This is a vaguely threatening day for New Englanders who love their NPR in duplicate.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:07AMSunday, March 23, 2014
"Bernard Malamud is the great sentence-maker, the great craftsman, and the sheer quality of those sentences has never perhaps been given its complete due."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:11PM 
