Tuesday, February 12, 2019
The generally enjoyable Bedlam production of Pygmalion doesn't quite settle for the glucose bait.
The post Theater Review: Bedlam’s “Pygmalion” — An Enjoyable Excursi…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:42PMMonday, January 21, 2019
I strongly advise you to explore the wizardry of Manual Cinema -- its potential is considerable.
The post Theater Review: Two Cheers for Manual Cinema’s”The End of TV” app…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:54PMWednesday, January 16, 2019
This is yet another sentimental exercise in the mechanics of mother/daughter rapprochement
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:42PMSaturday, January 12, 2019
A Doll's House, Part 2 comes off as a return to the barn -- after the door has fallen off its hinges.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:32PMWednesday, January 9, 2019
Despite its promising premise, Bess Wohl's script is yet another wan exercise in genial domestic comedy.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:36AMWednesday, December 5, 2018
Help sustain an endangered species -- substantial critical coverage of the arts.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:32PMThursday, November 15, 2018
Peter Brook has decided to be more than a little stubbornly anti-theatrical in The Prisoner.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:48PMFriday, November 9, 2018
The moral of Jen Silverman's yarn is straightforward enough: we are in a country where self-transformation has become an end in itself, re-invention a default response to omnipresent banalit…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:18PMFriday, October 26, 2018
Yes, The New Yorker cover pillories the superrich as they ignore the pixie proletariat at their feet. But so what?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:42PMMonday, October 22, 2018
The Peculiar Patriot may say it is about making us feel the human price of mass incarceration in America, but there is more than a little True Romance in the mix.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:56AMFriday, October 12, 2018
Taylor Mac and Pirandello share the same goal: reveal the deadening vacuity at the heart of bourgeois society and the male ego.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:42PMTuesday, October 2, 2018
The old questions, good as they are, are going to be augmented with new ones: Are we creating a world worth living in? Are we creating a world we can continue to live in?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:42AMTuesday, September 18, 2018
Eleanor Burgess' The Niceties is an articulate, if structurally crabbed, expression of #blacklivesmatter anger as well as a millennial rebel yell.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:48PMFriday, September 14, 2018
The Beau Jest Moving Theater staging succeeds at conjuring up the genially comic spirit of the late Larry Coen, a bounteously talented actor and director.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:48AMThursday, August 23, 2018
"If solutions are hard to come by -- both in terms of the socioeconomic predicament of contemporary jazz, and for American culture more generally -- this is because they derive from such fun…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:06PMThursday, August 16, 2018
Three theaters in the Berkshires offer differing views of the past.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:06PMMonday, August 13, 2018
Will working with audiences encourage stage companies and theater artists to go beyond the status quo? Or just cement them into the sweet spot?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:48PMTuesday, July 24, 2018
Diverting the resources of Boston's regional theaters into the casino of Broadway undercuts the ideals that launched the regional theater movement.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:24PMFriday, July 20, 2018
This Midsummer Night's Dream is a pleasant enough entertainment that is helped mightily by the bucolic waterfront setting.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:04PMTuesday, July 10, 2018
“Our film has community and spirituality,” says Amy Geller. “It also has conflict.”
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:48AMWednesday, June 13, 2018
We will not get another Angels in America unless we demand it -- and stop accepting bogus substitutes.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:24AMMonday, May 28, 2018
Recommended hashtags for the Boston Theatre Critics Association: #MeTooGiveMeTime, #MeTooNotYet
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:42AMThursday, May 24, 2018
Joshua Sobol isn't interested in exploring dramatic possibilities but making sure his equation about the inevitable mechanics of violence work out.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:48PMWednesday, May 9, 2018
Albert Camus brings a bracing response to thinking about the worse that is missing in so many of our current dystopias.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:32PMMonday, April 30, 2018
The script is symptomatic of the Trump era: a passionate rejection of the "politically correct” pushes warriors for "freedom,” as well as voices of radicalism, into morally despicable po…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:24AMTuesday, April 10, 2018
The strategic silences in the Boston Globe's piece on the legacy of Israel Horovitz are disturbing.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:45AMFriday, April 6, 2018
We need more serious, informed, and diverse voices evaluating and reporting on the arts at a time newspapers and magazines are cutting back and/or dumbing down their arts sections.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:06PMSunday, March 18, 2018
To my surprise, the auto union was written out of the picture from the start, as if dramatist Dominique Morisseau saw it as an embarrassment.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:29AMTuesday, March 13, 2018
Steve is a satisfyingly genial comedy that brings up, but then darts quickly away from, serious issues.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:40AMWednesday, March 7, 2018
The White Card's examination of white philanthropy and racism stays well within the comfort zone.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:16PMFriday, February 23, 2018
Shange's nervy mix of wordplay and in-your-face didacticism -- of resilience in the face of hardship -- is very much the empowering thing.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:40AM 
