This is the voice of a wife, mother, sister, daughter, friend, patient and author who wrote a memoir on her own terms. I can’t wait for Sarah Ruhl's next play. The post Book Review: Sarah…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:54PMNo author has addressed the issue of sexual assault so much on her own terms, and in such a personal and powerful way. The post Book Review: “Know My Name: a memoir’ — Required Reading…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:48AMPlaywright Rachel Bonds has written an often-hilarious script which nonetheless deals with such serious and widespread issues as spousal and child abandonment, drug addiction, the right to d…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:03PMOn the Exhale is one of the most powerful and uncompromising one-person shows I’ve ever seen. The post Theater Review: “On the Exhale” — Wild, Angry, and Powerful appeared first on …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:54PMThe production strikes a fine balance between comedy and seriousness, public and private concerns, bringing a complex and compelling play to vibrant life. The post Theater Review: “The Chi…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:24PMSelling Kabul poses many questions from the point of view of people seldom represented on the American stage. The post Theater Review: “Selling Kabul” — Those Who Remain Behind appeare…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:48PMIf you enjoy singing and dancing in your theater seat to the sound of good music while learning a bit about American cultural history and its personalities, you will enjoy this show. The pos…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:54PMTo see Raisin in the Sun in post-Obama America is to experience how a classic both remains emblematic of its time and changes resonance as time passes The post Theater Review: “A Raisin …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:42AMOpening on July 4, at a moment when immigrants and their living conditions are once again in the forefront of the news, Now Circa Then is an inspired choice. The post Theater Review: “Now …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:42AMThe play's disparate elements have been blended into a riveting drama, energetically directed by Lisa Rothe, and nimbly performed by Joel de la Fuente. The post Theater Review: “Hold These…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:48AMEdward Albee’s provocative theatrical exercise is far trickier to realize onstage than it is to appreciate on paper. The post Theater Review: “The Goat or, Who is Sylvia?” — Greek Tr…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:18AMI'm impressed with the new adaptation and depressed that it's considered necessary. The post Book Review: Anne Frank’s Diary — The Graphic Version appeared first on The Arts Fuse.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:24PMBecoming is a contemporary woman's adventure told by an intelligent, funny narrator who took a leap out of her comfort zone and came out of it, with her family intact, to tell the tale. The …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:06PMThe Barefoot Woman is lyrical but also informative and ethnographic, as much a memoir of a mother as it is of her way of life.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:36PMI was excited, moved, impressed, and surprised by Handel & Haydn Society’s performance of The Messiah under the exacting baton of Bernard Labadie.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:32PMEvery performance of opera should leave an audience so exhilarated.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:54PMClaire Tomalin narrates her story with a prototypically English stiff upper lip, and a reticence about the personal.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:42AMThis is a first-rate production of a true American classic.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:18PMThis slender memoir reads like a rambling conversation with a literary stranger you meet on a train.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:36PMMothers and Sons is one of veteran playwright Terrence NcNally's finest works.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:54PMThe Barrington Stage Company's moving and fiercely energetic production brings West Side Story back to the stage with a bang.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:32PMEducated is a testament to the power of sensitive friends and mentors -- and to Tara Westover's own resilience.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:04PMOn the Couch is an extraordinary coffee table book for anyone interested in “recumbency” and how the couch became the icon of psychoanalysis.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:04PMAugust Strindberg's Creditors turns out to be a play that speaks chillingly to our time.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:54AMAtung and Moy have a lot to say about American history and culture -- acutely informed by the playwright’s 21st century sensibility and identity politics.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:48AMThe action is set in an incongruous and ahistorical no-man’s land, adrift between realistic drama and farce.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:42AMWho knew that there were dozens of first-rate female American, Scandinavian, German, Swiss, French and Russian painters in Paris in the second half of the 19th century?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:48PMThe Closet is funny, brash, entertaining, and utterly forgettable.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:06AMThe Cake is a smart, stinging, and eerily timely comedy that feels timeless.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:04AMHaving a father in prison meant radical changes in our everyday lives.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:32AMThis tautly-directed, well-cast production is filled with contemporary medical, political, and social resonances.
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