Sunday, August 2, 2015
For all of its sound and fury and smoke, the CSC's version of King Lear is solid rather than surprising or exciting.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:54AMWednesday, July 22, 2015
In Kinship, dramatist Carey Perloff hasn't found a language that conveys irrational longing.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:02PMWednesday, July 8, 2015
Those who care about the future of American arts and culture should financially support this magazine and other valiant efforts to articulate the significance of the arts.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:41PMWednesday, May 20, 2015
An amiable musical revue about two guys who kick up their heels after global warming finally boils over.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:47PMTuesday, May 12, 2015
Congratulations to the nominees and the awardees.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:03PMWednesday, May 6, 2015
God speed Chairman Chu on her mission to make the fine arts less marginalized in a determinedly bottom line culture, obsessed with the pragmatic rather than the imaginative.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:06AMSunday, April 26, 2015
Had Daniil Kharms' texts been available at the high tide of the Theater of the Absurd, his plays would be performed alongside those of Samuel Beckett and Eugene Ionesco.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:58PMMonday, April 20, 2015
"The aspiration in presenting these works together is that a more rounded comprehension of Jack Kerouac might finally be realized or acknowledged by both general readers and scholars."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:24PMFriday, April 10, 2015
This wonder work from Canadian director Robert Lepage isn't here for much time, alas.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:56PMSunday, April 5, 2015
Where are the theaters that are bold enough to stage challenging and risky dramas about race? Not just talk the talk.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:39PMAfter reading the supposedly offensive article in the American Mercury, the judge said: "No one but a moron could be affected by it."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:36PMMonday, March 2, 2015
The Lyric Stage is presenting a moving production of Lynn Nottage's cautionary tale about strength of character tragically misdirected.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:04PMMonday, February 23, 2015
Over the next two decades, slow-creeping climate change is coming to the arts in America -- the arctic ice on which the creative class stands is melting.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:10PMWednesday, February 4, 2015
May Father Comes Home From the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3) fill the Loeb Drama Center to the brim and then some.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:12PMTuesday, January 27, 2015
Tristana is Ibsen's Doll's House played as a gaunt farce, a vision of feminism as icy egotism rather than individual liberation.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:38PMTuesday, January 13, 2015
"It’s not depressing to be told that writers and artists are getting screwed. It’s our daily reality."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:27PMFriday, January 9, 2015
"The pain depicted on stage must cut to the bone, inspire a seemingly impossible empathy within me, within the audience."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:43PMThursday, January 8, 2015
"My first order of business is to do a listening tour. I will have the same question for everyone I meet: what do you need to do your work?"
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:58PMWednesday, December 31, 2014
Theodore Dreiser's The Titan is not the greatest novel about American business, but it is still among the best, an honorable runner-up that turned 100 this year.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:19AMMonday, December 22, 2014
Fuse theater critics pick some of the outstanding productions of the year.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:36AMSunday, December 14, 2014
Why does The Arts Fuse keep growing? Because there is an audience for thoughtful coverage of the arts -- but we need support from our readers to keep us healthy.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:41PMSunday, November 30, 2014
In this fiction and plays, Thomas Bernhard creates fascinatingly repugnant monsters, black holes of egotism that are symptomatic of our spiritual and moral myopia.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:02PMFriday, November 21, 2014
The Old Man and The Old Moon is pleasing, but just how theatrically satisfying it is depends on the appeal of 'magical' folktales, the kind where anything goes.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:59AMTuesday, October 28, 2014
Ether Dome is nothing if not ironic: a dire need for relief generates a mess of pain.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:20PMMonday, October 20, 2014
The tragedy of King Lear never takes hold because you know that soon someone is going to pick up an accordion and with a 'Hey, Nonny Nonny' dance those blues away.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:42PMSaturday, October 18, 2014
"The Boston Book Festival is doing really well. It feels like an established part of Boston’s cultural scene."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:55AMTuesday, October 7, 2014
Imaginary Beasts is to be congratulated for bringing public attention to the brilliant, idiosyncratic-to--the-max-and-beyond work of Daniil Kharms, a writer silenced by Stalin.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:57PMThursday, September 18, 2014
Serbian writer David Albahari's fascination with uncertainty fuels a grim, sardonic tragi-comedy in which silence plays an elemental but enigmatic role.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:17PMThursday, September 11, 2014
When it comes to race relations, America has a lot on its plate -- there is no good reason to serve leftovers.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:33PMSaturday, September 6, 2014
We intend to stage work by all the living American poets we can lure into our sphere: starting right here in Cambridge.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:17AMThursday, September 4, 2014
Today's increasingly corporate-approved theater stays within safe, civic-minded boundaries.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:21PM 
