Friday, 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 03:54PMTuesday, March 22, 2016
Bootycandy is sharp-witted and entertaining -- but thoroughly sugary.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:18PMMonday, March 14, 2016
August Wilson's dramatized autobiography, thanks to the magnificent actor Eugene Lee, is a stirring experience.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:16PMSaturday, February 27, 2016
Mavis Staples' voice and stage presence still exude power, still plumb emotional and spiritual depths.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:15AMTuesday, January 19, 2016
The New York Times columns selected for Think Again are engaging, provocative, maddening, humorous, and insightful.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:06AMSunday, January 10, 2016
Via Dolorosa is essentially a work of reportage: it would have been more effective if it had taken the form of a travel essay rather than a performance piece.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:03PMTuesday, December 8, 2015
This one-man comic extravaganza about the dizzying spell of celebrity is a welcome respite from the annual bombardment of holiday joyrides.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:56AMMonday, November 16, 2015
A bewitching South African version of Bizet's opera -- performed with a distinctive blend of spunk and sass.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:56AMMonday, November 2, 2015
Casa Valentina's dramatic weight comes from how skillfully the cast explores the tensions that swirl about the subject of who is gay, who is straight, and what is legal.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:28AMTuesday, October 27, 2015
A Measure of Normalcy pays more attention to its many themes than its characterizations..
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:53AMSunday, October 11, 2015
Meow Meow milks the audience for applause so often it feels as if we are seated on stools in a dairy barn.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:33PMTuesday, October 6, 2015
Matthew Teitelbaum, 59, may be among the most reluctant employees the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston has hired.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:13PMMonday, September 21, 2015
Gloucester Blue is a lively play whose glow is generated by the spirited, tragicomic performances of a cast that obviously delights in performing it.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:09PMSaturday, September 19, 2015
In appropriate, a talented young playwright turns mischievous literary homage into a work of exhilarating entertainment.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:01PMMonday, August 24, 2015
You should see GSC's The Flick, but be warned that the drama works in spurts and starts
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:04PMTuesday, August 4, 2015
James Tate remains true to himself. These prose-poems are often stellar, harrowingly distinctive, and worthy of repeat visits.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:08PMFriday, July 31, 2015
Like Sanuel Beckett, Enda Walsh does not ignore the tenderness that flourishes, often under the duress of absurdity.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:32AMWednesday, July 22, 2015
While 887 explores the political, historical, and cultural ramifications of centuries-old racism, Robert Lepage never pander to victim mentality polemics.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:38AMSaturday, July 4, 2015
Out of Sterno punches the same punchline far too often.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:52AMThursday, June 25, 2015
The Aga Khan Museum should also be appreciated as a source of inspiration at a time when the civilization that produced its art has become horrifically vulnerable.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:15PMTuesday, June 16, 2015
Richard Nelson does not compel us to pay attention to his characters' psychological disclosures, and his reluctance to underline is refreshing.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:50PMSaturday, May 16, 2015
Mothers & Sons raises important questions about struggle, acceptance, and love, dramatizing battles that are still being waged.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:21PMTuesday, April 14, 2015
Despite the well-intentioned efforts of the cast, Eli Wiesel’s words were lost in space.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:54AMMonday, March 30, 2015
“It is just when we delve deeper into the sorrows of our lives, the sorrows we have all endured, that our humor saves us."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:11AMMonday, March 16, 2015
Culture Clash's view of America will discomfort, which is all the more reason that I urge you -- strongly -- to attend.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:46AMSunday, March 1, 2015
To call the American Visionary Art Museum quirky would be an understatement: therein lies its charm as well as one of the reason for its success, even in economic hard times.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:41AMFriday, December 12, 2014
Attempting to dig underneath our protective psychic skins to get at the festering Ids within, John Kuntz would like Necessary Monsters to mesh laughter and fright, comedy and horror.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:11PMSaturday, November 1, 2014
Galway Kinnell served as the Poet Laureate of Vermont and penned a number of poems, which often took the form of pastoral ramblings, that celebrated his appreciation of the rural life.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:23AMFriday, October 31, 2014
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 08:36AMFriday, October 17, 2014
Pride is poignant celebration of the power of the human element, a carefully layered tale of solidarity.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:20PM 
