Monday, 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 05:30PMWednesday, August 12, 2015
The script's suggestion of mythological violence elevates Eyes Shut. Door Open. above the formulaic "dark domestic secrets revealed at a family reunion" plot line.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:52PMFriday, June 26, 2015
Dramatist Laurence Carr has a gift for vivid characterization and for creating a concrete sense of time and place.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:24PMThursday, June 25, 2015
Happy Medium Theatre's powerful production is a testament to how the artists in our area are triumphing over the economic adversity.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:49AMSunday, June 14, 2015
In truth, Three is not much of a play at all, but an anthology of “very special episodes” of an unproduced television or web series.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:56AMThursday, May 28, 2015
Rarely are Boston's stages graced with a Shakespeare production that reaches this high a level of accomplishment.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:07PMThursday, May 21, 2015
With Julius Caesar, Bridge Repertory shows that it can assemble a strong ensemble and put together a memorable sensory experience.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:06PMMonday, May 18, 2015
At first, The Submission comes on as an agreeably edgy satire of the automatic embrace of identity politics and political correctness in the academy and popular culture.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:56AMTuesday, May 5, 2015
Ronan Noone's allegedly frisky sex farce turns out to be geriatric.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:56AMSaturday, May 2, 2015
The Whole World focuses on the incoherence that lurks underneath the empowering narratives we tell about ourselves.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:30AMFriday, April 17, 2015
Tragedy isn't when evil triumphs, but when good becomes entangled in its own inevitable contradictions.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:50AMFriday, April 3, 2015
Actors' Shakespeare Project's superb production of God's Ear honors this beautiful text.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:36AMSunday, March 22, 2015
The problem is that John August's book for the musical lacks most of what made his screenplay for the 2003 film so emotionally resonant for so many.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:10PMFriday, March 20, 2015
From The Deep suggests that Boston's theater community would be better served if it put more of its resources into presenting the work of local literary talent.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:05AMWednesday, February 25, 2015
In dramatist Nicolas Billon's enigmatic but involving Greenland, the audience is called on to actively reconstruct what occurred in the characters' lives.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:40PMFriday, February 20, 2015
Albatross is terrific -- a powerful script, vital performance, and imaginative stage design.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:08AMFriday, January 16, 2015
Shakespeare may have written Measure for Measure as a dystopian satire of what it would be like if the Puritans were ever to take over England.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:46PMWednesday, January 7, 2015
The Theater J debacle points to the difficulties Jewish theater faces within the Jewish community.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:41AMSaturday, December 20, 2014
The only Boston-based companies that have the means to stage an epic on this scale will shy away from the content while those adventurous enough to handle its iconoclasm lack the means.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:24PMSaturday, November 15, 2014
The Real Thing's discussion of linguistic precision may be telling now in ways that dramatist Tom Stoppard may not have anticipated.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:57PMThursday, November 13, 2014
To its considerable credit, Make My Heart Flutter is more existential, literary, and weird than most American comedies. Make My Heart Flutter by Hanoch Levin. Translated by Karen Alkalay-Gut…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:29AMFriday, November 7, 2014
Crack is too complex and nuanced to be reduced to an anti-psychiatric tract.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:42PMSunday, November 2, 2014
Self-production, I think, is for artists who also are entrepreneurs who have a burning desire to get their voice heard.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:28PMSaturday, October 25, 2014
This staging of Much Ado About Nothing would make an excellent ice-breaker for a discussion between adolescents and adults.about sexting
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:02AMWednesday, October 15, 2014
In interesting ways, German Stage's ongoing exploration of Germany's immigrant populations provides a lens through which we can evaluate how we perceive our immigrants and how we treat them.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:54PMThursday, October 9, 2014
The intriguing notion of a down-and-out clown troupe struggling with a classic text propels this superb production.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:04AMMonday, July 21, 2014
Director Jenna Ware's adaptation (a world premiere) of Carlo Goldoni's inspired zaniness puts a delightfully distinctive spin on a classic of clowning.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:46AMWednesday, July 9, 2014
Playwright Amir Al-Azraki is in the camp that believes that the Iraqis themselves bear much of the responsibility for the chaos in their country.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:53PMMonday, May 26, 2014
Does the distrust of (even a little) narrative ambiguity by North American dramaturgs and audiences mean that international plays must be made more 'cinematic' when they are produced here?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:25AMThursday, May 8, 2014
Icarus proffers plenty of spectacle and talent, but the show only recycles a story we've seen countless times on stage and screen.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:04AMSunday, April 13, 2014
Dramatist Savyon Liebrecht was recently in the Boston area for a residency with Israeli Stage -- two of her scripts, both dealing with Freud and his legacy, received their world premieres he…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:06PM 
