This production brings the Peterborough Players back in line with their own best traditions: entertaining, thoughtful, delightfully irreverent.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:32AMThese days, I'm not in a mood to be comforted in the theater by either toasting or roasting chestnuts. The post Theater Commentary: Is it Time for “Our Town”? appeared first on The Arts …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:03PMCarolyn Michel's Rose is the sociable stranger on the bus who tempts you to miss your stop so you can hear her out to the end. The post Theater Review: “Rose” — A Well-Acted Excursion …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:18AMWhen you do this kind of thing it has to be done with bravura and wit — bad poets borrow, good poets steal. The post Theater Review: “A Doll’s House, Part 2” — Soulless Fan Fiction…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:18AMDumas' Camille is nothing if not ambitious. Such complexity is seldom found on a summer stage. The post Theater Review: “Dumas’ Camille ” — A Thickly Layered, But Intimate, Evening a…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:03AMThis review, like the opening night of She Loves Me, is dedicated to the life and work of the late producer Harold Prince. The post Theater Review: “She Loves Me” — Amiably Unambitious…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:36AMThis production of Morning's at Seven is a celebration of Peterborough's theatrical family as much as it is the depiction of a fictional one.,/em> The post Theater Review: “Morning’s …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:36PMIn two short acts, playwright Win Wells depicts not so much a relationship as a fusion, a merging of identities into one single, complex personality. The post Theater Review: “Gertrude St…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:03PMWritten more than a decade ago, Mahida's Extra Key to Heaven falls all too painfully closely in line with current events. The post Theater Review: “Mahida’s Extra Key to Heaven” — C…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:18PMSexy Laundry airs the linen of a twenty-five-year marriage from which the colors seem to have faded, and the whites yellowed.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:18AMGeorge Bernard Shaw's The Man of Destiny could be an evening of delight with a frisson of cerebral exercise.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:36AMFor all its Edwardian setting and its mid-twentieth-century no-exit philosophy, The Inspector Calls speaks with ease to our own times, bedeviled with "alternate facts" and ethical doubts.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:12AMThornton Wilder's Big Ideas do not get lost in the hurly-burly of this production.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:48PMDavid Lindsay-Abaire's tightly woven comic script celebrates the everyday relationships that make up an argument for a full life.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:28AMHere, then, are two books that provide a fine literary introduction to one of the richest flowerings of poetry in European culture.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:54PMRussian poet Grennady Aygi wrote as an outsider, an ethnic outlier as well as a free-verse stylist of his generation.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:42PMThe ethical deliberations and the professional backbiting and banter of the doctors -- in the skilled hands of the director and cast -- is energized by genuine camaraderie.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:12PMNick Payne's fascinating Constellations takes the cosmic paradoxes of time head on.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:24AMFlawed and perhaps overwrought, The Whipping Man is worth watching because of the intensity of its individual scenes.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:06AMThis Peterborough Players production deserves a longer run than it has in the company's inaugural winter season.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:54AMProfoundly conservative and radically fresh, Mass Appeal justifies its title in the Peterborough Players fine production.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:32AMCry Havoc's message is clear: We expend energy and effort in preparing young men and women for war, but effort or energy in re-engaging them into the life of not-war.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:57AMThe staging is a brash translation of Shaw's early twentieth-century delicacy into twenty-first century Yankee sensibilities.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:03AMVanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike goes on about a half hour too long, but the quality of the acting overcomes the longueurs.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:44PMA two-person engagement like Annapurna demands that mysterious quality from actors that we call "chemistry."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:04AMThis production of Driving Miss Daisy isn't about conflict and irresolution, but sentimental reassurance.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:34AMDan Hodge turns two hundred and fifty stanzas of Shakespeare's rhyme royal into the stuff of a high-class poetry slam.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:42AMWriting seriously about a play that might not be meant to be taken so seriously presents a risk, but the provocation embedded in the social message of Born Yesterday can't be escaped.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:32AMThis production of Charley's Aunt has the rhythm of a Mozart operatic finale -- all the parts contribute to a dizzy harmony.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:03AMJohn Patrick Shanley's Outside Mullingar is a romantic comedy, so you can guess the dénouement, but all the fun is in getting there.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:56AMThere is little for the audience to take away from Red, except the anecdotal dramatization of an event inspired by Mark Rothko's career.
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