Friday, March 16, 2018
In The Humans, Stephen Karam suggest that America can be a Heaven that in a moment, might flip into Hell.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:19PMMonday, March 12, 2018
“You can be certain that when the show begins and you hear 'Mack the Knife,' there will be scenes of slashing and murdering.”
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:58PMAdrianne Krstansky, a marvelous actress, understandably exhibits signs of the strain of having to carry the entire production on her shoulders.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:13AMSaturday, February 3, 2018
The late Larry Coen was a mainstay in Boston theater.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:35AMFriday, February 2, 2018
Despite its drawbacks, this is a powerful production that speaks to what is happening today.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:14AMMonday, January 29, 2018
When it comes to helping artists make a living, social media turns out to be a mixed blessing.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:05AMSunday, December 31, 2017
Reading Nikki Giovanni, one is inspired to never cower, to never beg, to never surrender.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:48PMMonday, October 30, 2017
The bottom line is that we simply aren't given a requisite sense of the play's embrace of tragedy.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:18AMSunday, September 17, 2017
"Both poet/playwrights wrote with the same swings between tragedy and farce we live with now in America."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:06AMSaturday, September 16, 2017
Men on Boats is a sometimes rollicking, at other times tedious, one-act play.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:24PMSaturday, August 19, 2017
Israel Horovitz's latest play delivers some fine moments of comedy as well as some dark revelations about female neediness.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:42PMTuesday, August 1, 2017
Throughout Sam Shepard's oeuvre one can find ample evidence of his struggles with demons, some of them distinctively American.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:24AMMonday, July 10, 2017
Fresh Ink Theatre is to be applauded for taking risks, for daring to mix it all up, for giving audiences a taste of what theater, shelter-skelter version, can be.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:06AMThursday, June 1, 2017
Yes, Ripcord is candied, but there's just enough astringency blended in to make the sugar sufficiently tangy.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:48PMTuesday, May 9, 2017
The talented SpeakEasy Stage ensemble offers enough harmonious pizazz to make up for the musical 's erotic fizzle.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:42AMFriday, March 17, 2017
In the remarkable images of Henryk Ross, Nazi evil is exposed through a kind of heroic voyeurism.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:54PMWednesday, March 8, 2017
Grand Concourse does wondrous things: it encourages us ponder our own growth toward faith while emphasizing with the struggles of others.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:12PMTuesday, December 27, 2016
This excellent film version of the play Fences meets (even exceeds) the considerable demands of August Wilson's script.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:54AMFriday, December 9, 2016
These posthumous volumes provide ample proof that poet Philip Levine was far more than a proletariat troubadour.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:06PMSaturday, October 29, 2016
Tiger Style! blows by like a whirlwind -- wordy, frivolous, and ultimately unsatisfying.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:12AMTuesday, October 25, 2016
“Theater is my pathway to sanity,” Melinda Lopez explains.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:22AMFriday, September 30, 2016
This is a galvanic production that stirs the spirit and demands that we reflect on what the script says about our own time, our own struggles.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:21PMThursday, September 29, 2016
“If you’ll excuse me for being cheeky, it’s a collaboration between the players on stage and Beckett’s works.”
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:16AMFriday, September 23, 2016
Yes, another circus show has come to town with players who display breath-taking athleticism in all its cheeky glory.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:54AMSaturday, September 17, 2016
Once Eugene O'Neill and Tennessee Williams achieved success, they wanted to take on themes in their plays that challenged audiences.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:03AMMonday, September 5, 2016
There's a lot of love in the Lyric Stage Company’s production of Stephen Sondheim’s 1970 Tony Award winning show, Company.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:01PMTuesday, August 9, 2016
Summer theater musicals often accentuate the frivolous, but the GSC production of Songs for a New World demands more.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:13AMThursday, June 30, 2016
“Circus artists aren’t the best actors,” Shana Carroll notes, “it’s not their thing."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:30AMTuesday, May 31, 2016
Audiences for Liz Callaway can expect to hear faithful interpretations of these now familiar hit songs, but also expect the unexpected.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:18PMFriday, April 22, 2016
Based on a graphic novel, the brilliant Historia de Amor is unrelenting in its darkness. It’s as if we’re swimming in a pool of India ink.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:39AMTuesday, April 12, 2016
Let no one accuse the Boston theater community of being moribund.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:54PM 
