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Saturday, May 17, 2014

Fuse News: Hershey Felder — Back in Boston, This Time in “Abe Lincoln’s Piano” by Robert Israel

Pianist, actor, director and consummate storyteller Hershey Felder returns to Boston in a one-man show entitled Abe Lincoln’s Piano.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:35PM
Friday, May 2, 2014

Fuse News: In Memoriam — Former HTC Artistic Director Nicholas Martin by Robert Israel

The late Nicholas Martin -- an ebullient, mirthful spirit.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:26PM
Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Fuse Theater Review: “The Wholehearted” — Ringside at a Troubled Psyche by Robert Israel

What makes "The Wholehearted" compelling is how it examines the metaphor of fighting as both a pubic career and as an aspect of domestic violence.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:26AM
Friday, January 31, 2014

Fuse Theater Review: A Pitch Black “House/Divided” by Robert Israel

"House/Divided" – a mélange of dazzling videography, startling and inventive lighting/props/stage craft, and spoken snippets of John Steinbeck’s quasi-Biblical prose – does not add an…

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:07PM
Monday, January 6, 2014

Fuse Theater Review: “Working, A Musical” — A Pleasantly Uneven Hymn to the Working Man by Robert Israel

The challenges of this musical are to keep things buoyant yet insightful (and with some backbone) about a subject many of us dread, namely work and its drudgery.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:33AM
Monday, December 16, 2013

Fuse Book Review: Hail to The Kid — Ted Williams by Robert Israel

This expansive biography of Ted Williams is not awash in sentimentally, thanks to Ben Bradlee’s praiseworthy search for the facts, no matter where they lead, and his command of language, h…

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:09AM
Saturday, December 7, 2013

Fuse Theater Review: “Becky’s New Car” — A Song of the Open Road by Robert Israel

"Becky's New Car" turns out to be a ride worth taking, especially if we suspend our disbelief long enough to embrace the notion that malice is not necessarily aforethought even though our ac…

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:52AM

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