Friday, 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 09:40AMMonday, February 12, 2018
It was time for a bit of a face-lift.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:30PMThursday, February 1, 2018
The publication, its editor, and its over 60 writers believe that the health of arts criticism and the arts community are inextricably intertwined.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:13AMFriday, January 12, 2018
Ada/Ava is an impressive theatrical feat that finds a new, and invigorating, way of telling a story on stage.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:37PMSunday, December 31, 2017
Some of our critics talk about the books that meant the most to them over the past year.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:12PMTuesday, December 12, 2017
Does anyone really believe that there is no sexual harassment going on in Boston area theater companies today?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:42PMMonday, December 11, 2017
Hold These Truths is an invaluable reminder that alternative facts are not a new thing.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:48PMMonday, December 4, 2017
More alarming signs that the Boston Globe‘s arts section is shedding talent.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:54AMTuesday, November 28, 2017
Critics were once seen as the 'canaries in the mineshaft' -- now newspapers and magazines are closing down the mines.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:18AM 
