American readers will be intrigued by a language for sexuality that is plain but understated, neither vulgar nor coy.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:20PMAfter seeing many flat and boring adaptations of books over the past year, I recommend director Piotr Fomenko's playful adaptation of Tolstoy's Family Happiness to writers and directors want…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:31PMThe Lyric Stage actors and pianist Catherine Stornetta do an excellent job making all of "33 Variations" intelligible and, sometimes, very funny.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:45AMDirector Meg Taintor's demands on her five young actors – three women and two men -- are very high, requiring not only daring, but physical stamina and skill, dance training, mime training…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:29PMInstead of exploring his inner life at the time or his adult understanding of the institution that shelters him, Ngũgi wa Thiong’o draws a dispassionate and largely predictable report of …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:23AM"Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo" is hard to categorize. It is both funny and dead serious, not exactly a black comedy but an idiosyncratic composite of many different dramatic antecedents.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:59PMThe pairing of food for the stomach and food for the soul made me think of the role of culture in extreme situations.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:26PMAs Louis Armstrong, the gifted actor John Douglas Thompson is working with a script whose lines and contours are as woefully predictable as a profile in the old Life Magazine.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:17AMA 19th-century Russian masterpiece presented in a translation and a production whose mishmash of style distorts the play and confuses both actors and audiences.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:30AMWhy did Chester Theatre Company's Artistic Director Byam Stevens choose such a banal, lazily-written play with no drama, no development, barely any interesting language, and none of the wit,…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:56PMTheatergoers will find Khadim a new character in the American theater: an entitled, cosmopolitan Middle Eastern man, born in Damascus to Iranian parents, who speaks Farsi, Arabic, French, an…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:47AMIf this sounds like a melodrama, that is because Arthur Miller wrote one. "All My Sons" was very much a product of the dramatist's times and politics.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:04AM"The Swan" is a bold choice for a theater company and demands excellent actors and direction to keep it afloat.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:19AMTired of glitz and looking for a transformative musical experience? You can do no better than to hear this relatively unheralded musician play some of the most sublime music ever written.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:59AMDeftly directed by May Adrales, aided by sensitive sound, lighting, and costume design, "Animals Out of Paper" is exciting summer theater.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:19AMTwo Berkshire theaters are offering one-woman shows this summer. Both scripts feature intelligent, frank, and charismatic women. Both productions star gifted and seasoned actors.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:04PMWhat "George Gershwin Alone" provides is a light, pleasant evening of familiar music, with playwright, pianist, and actor Hershey Felder performing excerpts from a dozen or so of Gershwin’…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:35PMStefan Zweig's was a dramatic, action-packed, intense epic of a life, but Oliver Matuschek’s biography, Three Lives, simply plods along.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:52PMDirected ably by Joel Zwick, a long-time collaborator of Hershey Felder’s, the excellent Maestro: Leonard Bernstein includes the performer singing, playing the piano, and conducting as wel…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:00AM"An Accident of Hope" is a fascinating read for anyone interested in writers, writing, psychotherapy, women, medical ethics and American society just before the great upheaval of the 1960s.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:22AMThough rooted in Boston history, "The Luck of the Irish," with its racial, class, marital and inter-generational conflicts, could be set anywhere in the world.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:56AMClaude Lanzmann is a great raconteur who's honed his narrative skills as a veteran journalist. His memoir is exuberant and provocative at its best; bombastic and superficial at its worst.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:15PMThe people of Annawadi live in conditions so bleak that "Behind the Beautiful Forevers" evoked, for one Indian reviewer, Primo Levi’s depiction of life in concentration camps.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:10PMThis is shorter, no-frills Opera as Cinema than the Met HD supplies: without long intermissions, star interviews and audience preludes and postludes from Lincoln Center, it's almost an hour …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:58PM“The Hedgehog”‘s steady, slow pacing –- so rare in any film today –- captures the rhythms of haut bourgeois life in Paris and draws out the nuances of how people change…
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