Sunday, November 12, 2017
Director Courtney O'Connor, the Nora Theatre, and its skilled cast do right by this hilarious historical comedy.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:24PMTuesday, October 31, 2017
Matthew Woods and his actors do not draw on a faux-naturalist performance style, which is so (unfortunately) fashionable in mainstream theater.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:42PMThursday, October 19, 2017
An entertaining but surprisingly slight monologue from Israeli playwright Joshua Sobol.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:33PMTuesday, October 10, 2017
This staging, in terms of quality, surpasses any previous Flat Earth Theatre production I have attended.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:18PMSaturday, September 30, 2017
In Ionesco's play, society no longer makes sense -- even to itself.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:48PMWednesday, September 13, 2017
Playwright Aaron Loeb is spot on when writing about the corporate world where loyalty is maintained through non-disclosure agreements.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:18PMThursday, September 7, 2017
This exciting look at Shakespeare's tragedy is a decidedly gothic affair.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:12PMMonday, July 31, 2017
Allegra Libonati has assembled a mostly excellent cast for what at first glance should be an evening of quality Bardic entertainment.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:18AMWednesday, May 24, 2017
Mortals would be foolish to miss the ASP's version of Shakespeare's Dream.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:06PMTuesday, May 9, 2017
The source material -- and the skills of Tennessee Williams’ posthumous collaborators -- provides an evening of compelling theater.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:24PMTuesday, May 2, 2017
Debra Wise's stellar turn is not only a reflection of her long stage career, but a testament to the breadth of her experience.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:36AMTuesday, April 18, 2017
Apollinaire Theatre Company has done delightful justice to this zesty rejuvenation of a didactic dramatic chestnut.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:54AMWednesday, March 29, 2017
Questioning Joshua Sobol’s right to write about these kinds of intimate atrocities is to suggest that stages should never address these issues.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:12AMSaturday, March 25, 2017
With each piece, the impressive physicality of Kodō's drummers becomes even more theatrical.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:42PMMonday, March 20, 2017
This is a wonderful production of an important play that still has a dog in the fight.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:32PM Jeffrey Sweet has provided a handy oral history of the ways playwriting has changed over three generations.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:32AMFriday, March 3, 2017
Marlowe's skill in maintaining a high level of complexity put the history play on a sophisticated footing.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:12PMSaturday, February 25, 2017
Informed Consent is the smartest play I’ve seen hit Boston area stages since the new year began.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:32AMThursday, January 12, 2017
Askins’ script is an amusing mash-up of sex comedy and supernatural horror parody, drawing on puppetry's subversive potential to externalize the repressed.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:24PMThursday, January 5, 2017
Brilliant Adventures is an intriguing combo of realism and fantasy by an obviously talented dramatist.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:06AMWednesday, December 14, 2016
All in all, Allyn Burrows has assembled a solidly entertaining production of a perennial Shakespearean favorite for the winter season.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:04PMTuesday, December 6, 2016
The Underground Railway Theater serves up an hour and fifteen minutes of enchantment.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:54PMSaturday, November 19, 2016
Carrie J. Preston refuses to characterize these cultural exchanges in moralistic or narrowly political terms.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:24PMSunday, October 30, 2016
Though Kenneth Lin wrote Warrior Class in 2012, it is easy to see its resonances with the 2016 election cycle.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:42AMThursday, October 27, 2016
Alice Birch's play/polemic about radical feminism resists Company One's earnest-to-the-max interpretation.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:54PMTuesday, October 18, 2016
In this innovative production, Hamlet comes off as Shakespeare's most successful genre mash-up of tragedy and comedy.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:52PMSaturday, September 24, 2016
Romana Lisa Alexander's impressive talent for chameleonic invention is well-suited to this demanding script.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:28PMTuesday, September 13, 2016
Eight by Tenn offers eight stories whose psychological depths and linguistic riches rival those of most full-length plays.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:36PMThursday, September 8, 2016
Bread & Puppet Theater's world of anthropomorphized trees and talking toilets is often funny, sometimes beautiful, and always memorable.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:45PMSaturday, July 30, 2016
The Emperor of the Moon is a boisterous bit of family friendly late-afternoon entertainment under Shakespeare & Company's Rose Footprint Tent.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:07PMThursday, July 28, 2016
Shakespeare & Company's staging of Merchant of Venice is the strongest this critic has ever seen or could hope to.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:28PM 
