Wednesday, September 4, 2019
In a taut 90 minutes, The Lifespan of a Fact zeroes in on some key issues that we’re grappling with as a country -- or ought to be.
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:24PMWednesday, July 24, 2019
Over thirty years after it premiered, the script remains touching and funny, with the added merit that it provides a refreshing respite from the sour discourse of 2019.
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:06PMMonday, May 6, 2019
School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play is a serious comedy that takes aim at our provinciality and ignorance.
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:24PMMonday, March 25, 2019
A revival of Anna Ziegler’s absorbing and enlightening study of the brilliant British biophysicist Dr. Rosalind Franklin.
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:02PMTuesday, March 5, 2019
Once is a wonderful musical and the Speakeasy Stage production does exquisitely right by its considerable merits.
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:01AMMonday, March 4, 2019
The Half-Light is a play about ghosts that, while offering intimations of mortality, ends up exuding a charming and infectious romantic spirit.
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:32AMMonday, February 25, 2019
The script offers an indispensable vision of American history from the point of view of African women.
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:06AMWednesday, January 16, 2019
Heartland proffers a rare combination -- it is a prescient history lesson that also works dramatically.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:32PMTuesday, December 18, 2018
This year’s version – the 48th! – of The Christmas Revels is delightful and refreshing way to bid adieu to a tumultuous 2018.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:06PMTuesday, November 6, 2018
Mother Butterfly's script shows genuine promise, but the Storm Warnings Repertory Theatre's premiere production falls short.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:42AMWednesday, October 3, 2018
A comedy about slavery poses considerable challenges in our #blacklivesmatter times, but the characters bounce gleefully through endless rounds of verbal sparring.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:32AMThursday, September 27, 2018
We need a satire that takes Trump's radical threat more seriously than Vicuña.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:42PMStephen Adly Guirgis has written a fine play about those who would blur their minds rather than admit just how tired they are.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:06AMTuesday, July 24, 2018
With this fun and irreverent staging of Cyrano, GSC Artistic Director Robert Walsh has thrown audiences a delightful curve.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:42AMSaturday, June 16, 2018
Do the games of the Marquise and Valmont still have the same old sinful fire and political relevance?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:36AMTuesday, May 29, 2018
Open Theatre Project’s Gay Shorts is bold, out, and unafraid.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:32PMThursday, May 24, 2018
Director Ellie Heyman and her talented cast have their hands full with this new work because it is, in some ways, a tale of two musicals
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:48PMWednesday, May 16, 2018
As long as we’re sipping the truth serum wine, the biggest obstacle presented by the Storm Warnings Repertory Theatre production is -- itself.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:54PMSunday, May 6, 2018
With sufficient revision, Marisa Smith's genial farce could well command the rom-com slot virtually every regional and community theater in the world yearns to fill.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:12PMFriday, May 4, 2018
At the heart of The Women Who Mapped The Stars is a drama about the desire of significant female astronomers to be heard and respected.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:24PMMonday, April 9, 2018
The Niceties gives us an invaluable opportunity to hover outside of the current political fray, watching both perspectives go at it.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:28AMSaturday, March 3, 2018
Playwright Jennifer Barclay has created the perfect vehicle for generating a discussion about safety in our communities.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:11AMThursday, February 15, 2018
An Education in Prudence offers fascinating glimpses into a repressed episode in American history.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:25PM 
