6,222 stories from The Arts Fuse
"We need hope in the possibility of change in order to survive what's coming."
You either go full Hollywood CGI, or you pare it down to the poetry of it.
It's not hyperbole to suggest that Dan O'Brien's "True Story: A Trilogy" represents a distinctive achievement in theater history.
The Lyric Stage Company production almost meets the challenges posed by this delightfully inane musical farce.
Two new musicals attempt to capture the magic of two beloved books. With mixed success ...
Let's face it, we could all use a celebration of renewal and togetherness that crosses cultural (and political) borders.
"Beyond Words" tells an important story in an entertaining as well as a delightfully educational way.
Critical to the success of "Cost of Living" is playwright Martyna Majok's refusal to resort to tropes about people with disabilities and those who care for them.
Bob Dylan's music has rarely been more heartbreaking, his poetic storytelling rarely more beguiling, and the singing never less nasal.
The energizing force of this production comes from the students and, more specifically, the cohort of young women in the cast, each of whom is excellent.
The weight of the masterpiece on the other side of the kitchen door is ever-present, and it casts a smothering shadow on this lighter drama.
If only "Becoming a Man"'s pathos were less streamlined, its theatricality more ambitious.
By Bill Marx Must the stage only discreetly charm the bourgeoisie? "I have long argued that theater alone cannot achieve any social change," posited the Scottish dramatist and director John …
The musical's focus on truth in journalism resonates in our post-2016, "fake news," and Artificial Intelligence-saturated environment.
The time is overdue for a substantial discussion of what is happening (or not happening) in Boston-area theaters. Just don't expect to see anything in our sheepish mainstream media.
Theater critics, film reviewers, A&E editors, and arts columnists have been stripped from our dailies and weeklies. Why should you care? Oscar Wilde warned that an age without criticism …
This version of the script may be overreaching, but there is promise in M Sloth Levine's attempt to infuse gender and personal soul-searching into a spooky 'cartoon' mystery.
This is a rare script that focuses, equally, on emotional depth and scientific wonder.
This is one of the more engaging pieces of theatre I have experienced in some time.
In terms of the joy that theater can provide, this Speakeasy Stage production sets the bar high.
Set in New York in the mid-'50s, "Trouble in Mind" is a backstage dramedy that draws on the genre's interest in the ambiguities of role-playing to condemn racial bias.
Our theater critics salute the year's outstanding productions.
Providence-area professional theaters have fared better than most in terms of surviving and rebounding from the pandemic.
My advice: see this show in Boston before it settles into New York for what should be a long run.
As satisfying as this incomplete work is -- much like Schubert's "Unfinished Symphony," which the composer inexplicably abandoned six years before his death -- we can still regret not being …
