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Friday, October 31, 2014

Fuse Theater Review: “Bad Jews” — Lots of Sound and Fury by Robert Israel

Joshua Harmon steers his play to the middle ground where his two lead characters – representing polar opposites, cultural versus religious Judaism – ultimately exhaust one another, and u…

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:36AM

Friday, October 17, 2014

Fuse Film Review: “Pride” — A Feel-Good Film About the Union Ties That Bind by Robert Israel

Pride is poignant celebration of the power of the human element, a carefully layered tale of solidarity.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:20PM

Saturday, October 4, 2014

Fuse Theater Review: “Traces” — Dazzling On-Stage Mayhem by Robert Israel

The more-than-satisfactory appeal of Traces is to see these gifted athletes perform time-honored circus skills - the attempt to make the performers look like televised rock stars falls flat.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:10AM

Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Fuse Theater Review: A Superbly Gritty Staging of August Wilson’s “Fences” by Robert Israel

Director Eric C. Engel and the Gloucester Stage Company cast gives Fences an insightful and nuanced production.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:53AM

Monday, August 4, 2014

Fuse Theater Review: “4000 Miles” — A Journey Worth Taking at the Gloucester Stage Company by Robert Israel

4000 Miles is a showcase for dramatist Amy Herzog’s quirky sensibilities and canny insights into family dynamics.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:00PM

Friday, June 13, 2014

Fuse Theater News: Director Darko Tresnjak and Hartford Stage Get a Tony Nod by Robert Israel

The Tony accolades bestowed upon A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, will no doubt assure Darko Tresnjak’s future on Broadway.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:04AM

Saturday, May 31, 2014

Fuse Theater Review: Cirque du Soleil’s “Amaluna” — Spectacle and Sound Swamp Feminism by Robert Israel

Women are the dominant force in "Amaluna." They command the evening's whirligig of a stage as aerialists, clowns, musicians, dancers, and contortionists.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:34AM

Friday, May 23, 2014

Fuse Stage Review: Hershey Felder’s “Abe Lincoln’s Piano” — Hits Some Wrong Notes by Robert Israel

"Abe Lincoln's Piano" does not evoke in us the same sense of astonishment that Hershey Felder feels toward his antiquarian discoveries; his personal serendipities remain dramatically elusive.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:02AM

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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