Tuesday, June 15, 2021
The GSC production of Tiny Beautiful Things supplies a 90-minute catharsis, an opportunity to deal with all we've bottled up over the last 15 months or so.
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:48PMSunday, May 30, 2021
The heart and soul that so prominently flavors the Black Beans Project no doubt reflects the hopeful moment we're in.
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:24PMThursday, May 27, 2021
The "Real" Emily Dickinson never materializes, but the "Real" Mabel Loomis Todd does -- and it’s a sometimes shocking and sad story.
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:48AMThursday, April 22, 2021
You need to hear this play. Especially if you are white and already “know” Othello. Listen again (and again) and prepare to question old assumptions.
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:54AMThursday, April 15, 2021
The Catastrophist is an opportunity to begin processing our experience with a pandemic that has fundamentally changed our lives in ways we cannot yet fully comprehend.
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:32AMSaturday, March 13, 2021
A 50th anniversary is a wonderful milestone, and I congratulate the Revels for looking back and huzzahing the occasion as they have.
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:24AMAmir Nizar Zuabi’s engaging drama is a hopeful testament to communication and forgiveness.
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:24AMThis is a very effective political drama, a relevant warning about what social critic Chris Hedges calls the formation of "corporate totalitarianism."
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:24AMSpeakEasy Stage Company has (once again) chosen a bold script for its audience.
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:24AMThe show is made all the more powerful by the fact that we’ve now spent 12 months enduring Covid and four years of science denial and “alternative facts.”
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The audience members were as diverse as the cast, the show is not being staged in a traditional space in Boston, and the play is incredibly relevant.
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:48PMMonday, September 23, 2019
Bedlam's provocative production of The Crucible has a purpose -- to urge us all to stand up and shout down the devils in our midst.
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:06PMSaturday, September 14, 2019
With, The Purists, Dan McCabe has written a comic drama that not only has a lot to say, but does it with an enormous amount of playful vim and vigor.
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:03PMWednesday, 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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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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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.
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