Thursday, 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 06:28PMMonday, July 25, 2016
Apollinaire Theatre Company has expanded the possibilities of finding first-rate outdoor Shakespeare in the Boston area.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:26PMWednesday, July 20, 2016
Those seeking whimsical and intimate theatrical entertainment should take in this imaginative production.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:26PMSunday, July 17, 2016
The 7 Fingers can be depended on to fill everyone's belly with spectacle.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:55AMThursday, July 14, 2016
In this splendid exhibition, Leon Steinmetz displays a deep appreciation of the complexity of commedia dell'arte.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:58AMTuesday, June 21, 2016
Wild Williams is a marvelous antidote for the formulaic.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:15AMMonday, May 9, 2016
When it comes to dramatic debate, balanced parry and thrust are paramount.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:07PMWednesday, April 27, 2016
Maureen Keiller and Will Lyman have performed numerous staged readings of Oh God and their intimate knowledge of the text shows.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:12AMTuesday, April 19, 2016
Zahdi Dates and Poppies demonstrates that the formal aspects of Noh can be adapted to contemporary American themes.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:24PMThursday, April 14, 2016
Anne Washburn has a number of good ideas in this play, but the execution falls short.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:14PMFriday, April 8, 2016
Director Lee Mikeska Gardner has put together a dazzling production that matches Tom Stoppard's dazzling script.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:57PMFriday, April 1, 2016
Despite this, he is vexed by how the play draws out the anti-Semitism of English audiences
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:02PMFriday, March 11, 2016
Fast Company may be light entertainment, but director M. Bevin O'Gara has assembled her own remarkable crew for this breezy caper comedy.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:45AMSaturday, March 5, 2016
With conformity on the march, Ionesco's Rhinoceros remains as timely as ever.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:44AMSunday, February 28, 2016
Okada's play reflects how skepticism has become the default stance for young adults shellshocked by post-recession economic restructuring.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:13PMSaturday, February 6, 2016
The Convert is a complex historical drama that shows us individuals crushed among powerful contradictions.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:17PMFriday, January 22, 2016
The Housekeeper may be too conventional for its own good, but it is intelligently crafted and engagingly entertaining.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:22AMThursday, January 14, 2016
It is strange that Citizens of the Empire is so weirdly lame, given that it has been in development for quite a while now.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:09AMThursday, December 24, 2015
The ASP's superb production of The Winter's Tale provides a unusually deft fusion of tragedy and comedy.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:42PMWednesday, December 2, 2015
The timeliness of this staged reading made for one of the most heated and engaged talk-backs for any of the presentations in Israeli Stage's six-year history.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:20PMMonday, November 2, 2015
Dramatist Katori Hall's narrative unfolds with few surprises: every revelation, every secret, every comeuppance is foreshadowed.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:16PMSaturday, October 31, 2015
David Ireland's use of coded sectarian language helps him paint a vivid picture of the Belfast his characters call home.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:38AMSaturday, October 17, 2015
Despite the dazzling rewards of this virtuoso Underground Railway Theater production, Copenhagen short circuits its central theme.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:51AMThursday, October 15, 2015
The laughter in the production serves a useful purpose: it distract us from the serious narrative problems in Caryl Churchill's script.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:14PMSaturday, October 3, 2015
Wesley Savick not only does a fine job of adapting Alan Lightman's text, but in his role as director he squares the circle: his stage version runs like clockwork yet breathes like an organic…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:26AMThursday, October 1, 2015
ASP director Bridgette Kathleen O'Leary chooses a nuanced approach to Othello that hews closely to the text.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:58AMSunday, September 27, 2015
This show's rousingly eclectic score is considerably more progressive than what is typical of our determinedly conservative modern musical theater genre.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:25PMThursday, September 17, 2015
Membership in academe comes down to those who never wanted to leave the comforts of college or those who see it as a place to score big.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:43AMMonday, September 14, 2015
The New Repertory Theatre is paying homage to Arthur Miller's centennial with a superb staging -- a Boston-area premiere -- of one of the dramatist's later works, Broken Glass.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:07PMThursday, August 27, 2015
The Winter's Tale's odd structure and hybrid genre is a challenge to modern directors and audiences alike.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:43AMMonday, August 17, 2015
What sets Double Edge Theatre apart from other troupes is that it has always forged an intimate link between the world of physical theater and the world of literature and ideas.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:30PM 
