Working on a Special Day is an unusual show in every way, and I was thrilled to have had the opportunity to see it.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:51PMArtist/scholar Elizabeth Lennard has managed to evoke the breadth of Edith Wharton’s life and work in a relatively short and vivid film.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:15AM"The Other Place" examines the devastating effects of an illness that is becoming far too relevant to our lives.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:25AMThe engaging and multi-talented performer Ibrahim Miari has written an insightful and funny one-man show that draws on his own life as an Arab born in what is now the Israeli city of Akko.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:21PMMotti Lerner's characters succeed in making both the secular and ultra-religious life appear rewarding and believable.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:01AMDaniel Jones is a beguiling writer, with a wonderfully irreverent way of addressing one of life’s most serious sources of joy and disappointment.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:38PMI don’t share Rebecca Mead’s awe for "Middlemarch," but I share her enthusiasm for stretching the envelope of memoir.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:15PMThere will be readers who appreciate Daniel Menaker's brevity and lack of emotional engagement, but for me, much of "My Mistake" reads like notes for a memoir.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:12PMSo is the book worth reading? Depends how interested you are in twentieth century cultural history, in music and creative genius, in marriage and sexuality.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:50PMStoneham Theatre's atmospheric staging of Jeffrey Hatcher's version of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" is a production well worth seeing -- it lives up to its billing as “a new look at a horror …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:11AMOh God meets all of Guy Ben-Aharon’s criteria for Israeli Stage.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:18AMThere are hundreds of studies to be analyzed and many experts who could have been interviewed in depth, but both authors have chosen to write breezy books that can be characterized as “jou…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:04PMThe quality of this production of Major Barbara and the seriousness which with the Shaw Festival addresses every aspect of theater makes the long trip from Boston to Niagara-on- the-Lake wel…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:16PMDramatist Jeffrey Hatcher didn’t become a working adaptor until the mid-1990s. He saw that some his playwright friends were doing it and he thought: “Why not me?"
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:32AMThe fall is an excellent time to visit the Mount, the splendid home author Edith Wharton built for herself in the Berkshires. The leaves have already begun to turn.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:39PMThe Lenox Library's annual book sale – drawing on the discards of the area’s writers, teachers, performers, psychotherapists and culture-obsessed summer-residences -- is considered one o…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:39PMIf you've been thinking of visiting The Mount, the sumptuous writer's retreat Edith Wharton built for herself in the Berkshires at the turn of the twentieth century, now is the time.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:44PMFrom the first clearly projected lines to the last, it’s obvious that director Julianne Boyd set out to direct a production of Much Ado where language rules supreme.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:21PMStaged readings are a win-win situation for everyone concerned.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:17PMTo my ears, the Boston Symphony Orchestra -- supplemented by saxophones, guitar, and madolin -- sounded overblown and unbalanced, oddly tinny at times (perhaps because of the amplification),…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:48AMIt was an unexpected pleasure to stumble onto this one-hour, one-woman show, which explores a fascinating episode in Japanese-American history.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:11AMTanglewood had a stellar opening night on Friday with perfect weather, a large crowd, and melodious concerts of mostly Tchaikovsky.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:45AMThe Williamstown Theatre Festival's captivating staging of "Animal Crackers" provides two hours of great fun and near-perfect summer theater for the entire family.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:27PMIn a novel spin on a very old theatrical situation, paranoia rather than lust drives the one-night stand in "Muckrakers."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:03AMWhat fun!! I'm so glad to have seen "On the Town," a hard-to-get-right musical in this lovely, lusty and lithe production.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:09AMPittsfield’s Barrington Stage is now giving the play, ably translated by playwright Morwyn Brebner, its American premiere and I admire the theater’s choice.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:32PMAntonio Tabucchi's "travel book" transcends conventional literary forms: his stories occupy an attractive space between fiction and non-fiction, poetry, biography, short story and journalist…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:37AMEarly birds will be served what looks like a promising treat when Bashir Lazhar receives its American premiere courtesy of the Barrington Stage Company.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:26AMMaybe Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg had no interest in the requirements of a good book -- just its potential use as a marketing tool.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:15AMUltimately, "The Elimination" is less a literary effort than an act of witness by both writer and reader.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:07AMAmerican readers will be intrigued by a language for sexuality that is plain but understated, neither vulgar nor coy.
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