Wednesday, September 18, 2019
Listening to the dead speak, amid the natural grandeur of Mount Auburn Cemetery, is a moving experience.
The post Theater Review: “The America Plays” — Aisle of the Dead appeared first…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:36PMSunday, September 8, 2019
Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.
The post Coming Attractions: September 8 through 24 — What Will Light …
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David Gow’s earnest, intelligent drama about the fragility of identity, though somewhat glibly reassuring, generates powerful moments in this bare-bones production from the Acropolis Stage…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:24PMSunday, August 25, 2019
Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.
The post Coming Attractions: August 25 through September 10 — What Wil…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:18PMSunday, August 18, 2019
But this is an American musical, so political content (and blame for the way things are) must be kept fuzzy, a strategically-calculated myopia.
The post Theater Review: “Fall Springs” �…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:48PMThursday, August 8, 2019
"There's a giant chip on the shoulder of those who love musics of the world when it comes to klezmer."
The post Music Interview: Klezmer Clarinettist Michael Winograd Does “Kosher Style”…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:18PMWednesday, July 24, 2019
Can anyone -- with a straight face -- argue that our largely white critical contingent in Boston is interested in generating hard hitting debate, controversy, and unconventional ideas?
The …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:42PMWednesday, June 12, 2019
This funding means that The Arts Fuse will be cranking out the kind of arts coverage you have come to expect for a good time to come.
The post From the Editor’s Desk: We Turn Twelve — Th…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:54AMSunday, June 9, 2019
The media big boys should be part of the discussion, if only because they have the resources to change the situation for the better.
The post Theater Commentary: An Open Letter — to the �…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:03PMThursday, May 16, 2019
The BTCA should take action in support of #MeToo.
The post Theater Commentary: The Boston Theater Critics Association — Still Evaluating? appeared first on The Arts Fuse.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:03AMWednesday, May 8, 2019
Precious few independent online arts publications make it to double digits. Please give us the resources we need to persevere at an essential cultural task.
The post THE ARTS FUSE TURNS TWEL…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:18PMTuesday, April 2, 2019
"ignorance about those who have disappeared/ undermines the reality of the world." -- Zbigniew Herbert
The post Theater Review: “Cardboard Piano” — Pay Witness appeared first on The Ar…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:29PMSunday, March 17, 2019
Mainstream environmentalism is not just serious and sanctimonious, it also happens to be very white and very heteronormative.
The post Book Interview: “Bad Environmentalism” — Laughing…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:20PMThursday, March 7, 2019
The playwright supplies a memorable encounter between young and old in the play's final scene, but it is too late to compensate for the superficiality of the Pirandello-lite antics that have…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:28AMWednesday, February 27, 2019
Is there a disconnect between artists and meaningful resistance movements?
The post Commentary/Interview: “Du Bois’s Telegram” — Restricting Literary Resistance appeared first on The…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:42AMTuesday, February 12, 2019
The generally enjoyable Bedlam production of Pygmalion doesn't quite settle for the glucose bait.
The post Theater Review: Bedlam’s “Pygmalion” — An Enjoyable Excursi…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:42PMMonday, January 21, 2019
I strongly advise you to explore the wizardry of Manual Cinema -- its potential is considerable.
The post Theater Review: Two Cheers for Manual Cinema’s”The End of TV” app…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:54PMWednesday, January 16, 2019
This is yet another sentimental exercise in the mechanics of mother/daughter rapprochement
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:42PMSaturday, January 12, 2019
A Doll's House, Part 2 comes off as a return to the barn -- after the door has fallen off its hinges.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:32PMWednesday, January 9, 2019
Despite its promising premise, Bess Wohl's script is yet another wan exercise in genial domestic comedy.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:36AMWednesday, December 5, 2018
Help sustain an endangered species -- substantial critical coverage of the arts.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:32PMThursday, November 15, 2018
Peter Brook has decided to be more than a little stubbornly anti-theatrical in The Prisoner.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:48PMFriday, November 9, 2018
The moral of Jen Silverman's yarn is straightforward enough: we are in a country where self-transformation has become an end in itself, re-invention a default response to omnipresent banalit…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:18PMFriday, October 26, 2018
Yes, The New Yorker cover pillories the superrich as they ignore the pixie proletariat at their feet. But so what?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:42PMMonday, October 22, 2018
The Peculiar Patriot may say it is about making us feel the human price of mass incarceration in America, but there is more than a little True Romance in the mix.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:56AMFriday, October 12, 2018
Taylor Mac and Pirandello share the same goal: reveal the deadening vacuity at the heart of bourgeois society and the male ego.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:42PMTuesday, October 2, 2018
The old questions, good as they are, are going to be augmented with new ones: Are we creating a world worth living in? Are we creating a world we can continue to live in?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:42AMTuesday, September 18, 2018
Eleanor Burgess' The Niceties is an articulate, if structurally crabbed, expression of #blacklivesmatter anger as well as a millennial rebel yell.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:48PMFriday, September 14, 2018
The Beau Jest Moving Theater staging succeeds at conjuring up the genially comic spirit of the late Larry Coen, a bounteously talented actor and director.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:48AMThursday, August 23, 2018
"If solutions are hard to come by -- both in terms of the socioeconomic predicament of contemporary jazz, and for American culture more generally -- this is because they derive from such fun…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:06PMThursday, August 16, 2018
Three theaters in the Berkshires offer differing views of the past.
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