Monday, February 13, 2017
We learn a great deal about Hayim Nahman Bialik’s life in this biography. But the volume does not live up to its subtitle.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:12AMThursday, June 16, 2016
The effort to merge Deaf culture with the Book of Job becomes too much a burden for Craig Lucas's family melodrama to bear.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:38AMFriday, April 1, 2016
You know we have come a long way when, just like everyone else, transsexuals can have their own mediocre musical.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:02PMTuesday, March 29, 2016
Richard Nelson's family members talk to each other, not to us. We are privileged to be permitted to listen in.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:28AMSaturday, January 2, 2016
Abraham Karpinowitz offers a salutation of the heart to his beloved city of Vilna.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:33PMTuesday, November 24, 2015
Perhaps the yuck factor of Night is a Room's sexual proclivities elicits giggles as a cover for not knowing how or for whom to care.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:28AMTuesday, December 23, 2014
Every Brilliant thing is evidence, which we may need, that life matters, and that theatre matters.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:33AMSaturday, June 14, 2014
In this book, personality trumps process, although The Eugene O'Neill's Theater Center's purpose is, at its source, process.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:29AMThursday, April 10, 2014
Theater is a public art. And yet, the irony here is that the most profound communication between individuals can be the least publicly communicable.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:20PMThursday, February 27, 2014
I had the opportunity to see two performances of Peter M. Floyd’s Absence at Boston Playwrights’ Theatre. The opening weekend ran with understudy Kippy Goldfarb in the central role. Late…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:44PMWednesday, December 11, 2013
Dramatist Richard Nelson’s language is plain poetry, which passes as prose. It is conversation, as another poet hymned, transmogrified.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:14PMTuesday, December 10, 2013
What feels absent in Bruce Norris's "Domesticated" is some sort of moral center to its familiarly skewed, down sliding spiral of relationships.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:59PMFriday, October 11, 2013
Director Bill Rauch’s concept and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival company have, in a small space, created an achievement of monumental, yet personal, proportion.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:40PMThe Oregon Shakespeare Festival is an annual theatrical adventure for many on the West coast, and should become one for the rest of the country – but make reservations early.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:38PMSunday, November 25, 2012
With his biopic "Orchestra of Exiles," director Josh Aronson has done an at times awkward, but important, cut and paste job of history and biography.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:08PMSaturday, November 17, 2012
The film asks: what are you going to believe, the facts or your lying eyes? The truth is that we do not always want to confess. My Dad is Baryshnikov, directed by Dmitry Povolotsky. Russia 2…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:15AMThursday, November 15, 2012
A collection of short films and a documentary at The Boston Jewish Film Festival that serve up plenty of decision, determination, devotion and delight.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:36AMMonday, November 12, 2012
It can be a long wait for the end of the world, even though it lies only a week away, to wit, from the beginning to the end of the Israeli film "We Are Not Alone."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:50AMMonday, June 25, 2012
In this compelling stage version of "Frankenstein," urgency of revenge pushes forward, murder upon murder. Creature and Doctor merge in immorality. Both are playing God in their command of l…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:11AMSaturday, May 19, 2012
A.R.T artistic director Diane Paulus, entrepreneur extraordinaire, seems to have plucked impulse for character and meandering plot from a watered (down) idea of The Tempest.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:03AMSaturday, March 3, 2012
As this is his only work which Shakespeare himself titles ‘comedy,’ a company may feel an obligation to elicit laughter. Ironically, this duty can become burdensome.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:57PMThursday, November 17, 2011
The Boston Jewish Film Festival saves one of its best films, "Mabul," for last, and some final thoughts on this year's line-up of movies.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:40AMSunday, November 13, 2011
More comments on the films in this year's Boston Jewish Film Festival, including "Dolphin Boy", an uneven documentary about dolphins and healing, and "Dusk," one of the finest films in the f…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:11PMSaturday, November 12, 2011
More comments on the movies in this year's Boston Jewish Film Festival, including "Standing Silent," a powerful documentary on child abuse in the orthodox Jewish community and a effective ad…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:26AMTuesday, November 8, 2011
More pithy reviews of the Boston Jewish Film Festival fare, including some reflections on entries in the Short Films Competition.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:41PMSaturday, November 5, 2011
Congratulations to the Boston Jewish Film Festival are certainly due to its longevity and general quality.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:10AM 
