Tuesday, 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 12:11PMSunday, March 9, 2014
Jiri Fiedler's was a life of quiet heroism dedicated to the indispensable task of keeping the past alive.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:45PMMonday, March 3, 2014
In "The Flick," Annie Baker creates youngish characters that my students at Boston University would call “relatable,” exploring how self-delusions, stereotypes, and fear keep them from c…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:38PMTuesday, February 25, 2014
A lack of dramatic combustion sometimes makes the Lyric Stage Company production, despite its intelligent detail, more staidly melodramatic than it should be.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:40PMMonday, February 17, 2014
"Witness Uganda" is a quintessential American musical -- a work of cultural tourism that condemns cultural tourism.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:06PMFriday, February 14, 2014
The protagonist may necessarily be passive in the face of his or her diminishing mental condition, but art must rage against the dying of the light.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:40AMTuesday, February 4, 2014
The "Cambridge Jonson" volumes are available online, and the site is a bibliographical joy to behold, Ben Jonson's plays, poems, masques, and prose arranged in chronological order and in a s…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:09PMSunday, January 26, 2014
Those willing to accept that powerful political theater can be as much about depicting pain as providing hope will find much to admire in this visually striking, dramatically compelling piec…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:27PMMonday, January 13, 2014
"Criticism will always have the force of the child in the story about the emperor's new clothes, because there will always be naked emperors who everybody says are wearing today's Crown Jewe…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:59PMFriday, January 10, 2014
"Venus in Fur" could be best described as cheeky rather than kinky, more of a talky intellectual exercise than a zesty exploration of the allure of sexual domination and submission.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:39PMTuesday, January 7, 2014
Through meticulous research, interviews, and reminiscence, this compelling book illuminates a nook in the heart of darkness.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:09PMFriday, January 3, 2014
Arts Fuse critics select the best in dance and theater that's coming up this week.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:52AMSunday, December 29, 2013
Fuse Theater critics pick some of the outstanding shows of the past year.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:18PMMonday, December 23, 2013
What is refreshing about the muscular back-flipping in David Farr’s amusing rewrite of the Robin Hood fable is that Maid Marion is as much into derring-do as the Merry Men.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:00PMThursday, December 19, 2013
Given how rarely "Henry VIII" is staged, any Shakespeare enthusiast worth his or her salt should definitely take in this uneven production.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:47PMTuesday, December 17, 2013
Chekhov's jokes are the inevitable by-products of his characters confronting life’s absurdities; Christopher Durang is content to wring laughs out of wacky situations and cartoon caricatur…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:46PMThursday, December 5, 2013
In her compelling deconstruct/rewrite of "Miss Julie," set in South Africa 18 years after the end of apartheid, director/dramatist Yaël Farber doubles down on the elemental energies of Gree…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:07AMMonday, November 25, 2013
With the 1% rapidly vacuuming up the upper and middle classes, A.R. Gurney's comic vision of the tipsy idle rich, shorn of cares and criminality, floats completely free of reality.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:21AMSaturday, November 23, 2013
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:02PMFriday, November 15, 2013
British dramatist Caryl Churchill proffers a valuable line of satiric attack on our delusions of doing good, so it is easy to forgive the dramatist her broad and scattershot comic approach.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:36AMWednesday, November 6, 2013
Unfortunately, there are only flickers of Kurt Vonnegut’s dark and playful genius in "Make Up Your Mind."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:55AMSunday, October 27, 2013
Whenever you hear greeting card bromides intoned with a straight face (it's usually in scenes set in a hospital) you know that moral fuzziness isn't far behind.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:10AMMonday, October 14, 2013
Interestingly, both of these powerful visions of horror root their avenging vision of mayhem in the brutal mistreatment of children.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:10AM 
