THE ARTS FUSE TURNS TEN! Help sustain substantial critical coverage of the arts. By Bill Marx TEN YEARS of The Arts Fuse! Over four thousand reviews, commentaries, and features on arts and c…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:48PMThere are just too many traumas on Hasfari's checklist, too little time allotted to dramatic depth.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:18AMMy thought was that it would exciting to invite high school students from diverse backgrounds in the Boston area to become better educated about arts criticism.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:24PMLester Bangs insisted that, at its best, rock was an act of pure rebellion, a liberation from the prison of respectability.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:18PMBeneath Barbecue's jokes there's little but a chic cynicism.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:54AMAyad Akhtar's script softens up patriarchal authoritarianism by plugging it into a family comedy structure.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:24PMThe ART presents a staid production of Tennessee Williams' talky chamber play about wanderers struggling to be released from their pain.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:32PMCan the smothered idealism of the teachers be rekindled? Will the school be saved if students and faculty join together?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:42PMPraxis Stage manages to get Arthur Miller's message across, and it is a valuable one that must be repeated well beyond the inauguration.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:42PMThis is a thoroughly pedestrian production -- wobbly, uninspired, and often downright tedious.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:06PMWhy haven't American theater companies dealt seriously with climate change?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:24PMBill Rauch and company keep the superficial contrivances hurtling along at a fast enough pace so we aren't given much time to think.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:06PMI ask you to consider contributing to The Arts Fuse so that we can continue to be an indispensible part of the Boston arts landscape.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:18PMMaybe finally we’re reaching the Natsume Soseki moment in the English-speaking world.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:42AMThere will be a public celebration of Margaret Weigel's life on December 9 at Medford's Chevalier Theater.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:48PMThere's nothing here to challenge the status quo, just an amiable 'sex' comedy about characters who aren't getting any.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:24AMMany of today's arts editors and reviewers embrace a lilliputian vision of arts criticism; they accept a crabbed sense of its possibilities.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:24AM"I have always been a fan of horror movies, and I’m sure that was part of the attraction to me."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:48AMThe standard view of Kafka reduces him to the patron saint of neurotics.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:46PMIs truth and beauty served when the arts just take the money from the big banks and run?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:10PMWe're reminding everyone that fighting corruption and injustice is hard work, but it can be fun as hell too.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:48PM"The purpose of the film is to take the audience on what I hope will be a riveting, challenging, and ultimately uplifting journey into the world of human trafficking."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:12AMThis is a satisfying if limited production; the Harbor Stage Company is a troupe that is well worth keeping an eye on.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:52PMThere is little doubt in my mind that this powerful production of Blasted will be one of the high points in Boston theater this year.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:40AMThe hope is that nobody will notice that arts criticism hasn't been invited to the Pulitzer Prize's centennial party.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:26AMAmong the driving forces behind Anna Deveare Smith’s latest solo work is a call to strengthen "our collective capacity for action."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:13PMThere is much to like in this outdoor production of Love's Labor's Lost -- the time passes by quickly and there are plenty of smiles along the way.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:26AMThe Globe tells us that we will be gaining compelling stories. What are we losing? Invitations to think seriously about artistic accomplishment and failure.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:43AMA.O. Scott's hurrah for criticism should be savored by anyone interested in the connections between the health of the arts and the ways we articulate their value.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:55PMThe Arts Fuse is developing a new initiative: the Arts Critic Mentorship Program and celebrates turning nine!
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:37AM"What other play culminates in such a frenzy of emotion and joy and love all in a moment on stage?"
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:03AM
