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 06:28PMApollinaire Theatre Company has expanded the possibilities of finding first-rate outdoor Shakespeare in the Boston area.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:26PMThose seeking whimsical and intimate theatrical entertainment should take in this imaginative production.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:26PMThe 7 Fingers can be depended on to fill everyone's belly with spectacle.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:55AMIn this splendid exhibition, Leon Steinmetz displays a deep appreciation of the complexity of commedia dell'arte.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:58AMWild Williams is a marvelous antidote for the formulaic.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:15AMWhen it comes to dramatic debate, balanced parry and thrust are paramount.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:07PMMaureen 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 10:12AMZahdi Dates and Poppies demonstrates that the formal aspects of Noh can be adapted to contemporary American themes.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:24PMAnne Washburn has a number of good ideas in this play, but the execution falls short.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:14PMDirector Lee Mikeska Gardner has put together a dazzling production that matches Tom Stoppard's dazzling script.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:57PMDespite this, he is vexed by how the play draws out the anti-Semitism of English audiences
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:02PMFast 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 11:45AMWith conformity on the march, Ionesco's Rhinoceros remains as timely as ever.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:44AMOkada's play reflects how skepticism has become the default stance for young adults shellshocked by post-recession economic restructuring.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:13PMThe Convert is a complex historical drama that shows us individuals crushed among powerful contradictions.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:17PMThe Housekeeper may be too conventional for its own good, but it is intelligently crafted and engagingly entertaining.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:22AMIt 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 10:09AMThe ASP's superb production of The Winter's Tale provides a unusually deft fusion of tragedy and comedy.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:42PMThe 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 03:20PMDramatist Katori Hall's narrative unfolds with few surprises: every revelation, every secret, every comeuppance is foreshadowed.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:16PMDavid 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 11:38AMDespite the dazzling rewards of this virtuoso Underground Railway Theater production, Copenhagen short circuits its central theme.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:51AMThe 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 06:14PMWesley 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 09:26AMASP director Bridgette Kathleen O'Leary chooses a nuanced approach to Othello that hews closely to the text.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:58AMThis 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 10:25PMMembership 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 11:43AMThe 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 04:07PMThe Winter's Tale's odd structure and hybrid genre is a challenge to modern directors and audiences alike.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:43AMWhat 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.
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