Saturday, October 16, 2021
This is the voice of a wife, mother, sister, daughter, friend, patient and author who wrote a memoir on her own terms. I can’t wait for Sarah Ruhl's next play.
The post Book Review: Sarah…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:54PMWednesday, October 16, 2019
No author has addressed the issue of sexual assault so much on her own terms, and in such a personal and powerful way.
The post Book Review: “Know My Name: a memoir’ — Required Reading…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:48AMMonday, August 12, 2019
Playwright Rachel Bonds has written an often-hilarious script which nonetheless deals with such serious and widespread issues as spousal and child abandonment, drug addiction, the right to d…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:03PMMonday, July 29, 2019
On the Exhale is one of the most powerful and uncompromising one-person shows I’ve ever seen.
The post Theater Review: “On the Exhale” — Wild, Angry, and Powerful appeared first on …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:54PMSaturday, July 27, 2019
The production strikes a fine balance between comedy and seriousness, public and private concerns, bringing a complex and compelling play to vibrant life.
The post Theater Review: “The Chi…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:24PMMonday, July 15, 2019
Selling Kabul poses many questions from the point of view of people seldom represented on the American stage.
The post Theater Review: “Selling Kabul” — Those Who Remain Behind appeare…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:48PMSaturday, July 13, 2019
If you enjoy singing and dancing in your theater seat to the sound of good music while learning a bit about American cultural history and its personalities, you will enjoy this show.
The pos…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:54PMTuesday, July 9, 2019
To see Raisin in the Sun in post-Obama America is to experience how a classic both remains emblematic of its time and changes resonance as time passes
The post Theater Review: “A Raisin …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:42AMMonday, July 8, 2019
Opening on July 4, at a moment when immigrants and their living conditions are once again in the forefront of the news, Now Circa Then is an inspired choice.
The post Theater Review: “Now …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:42AMMonday, June 3, 2019
The play's disparate elements have been blended into a riveting drama, energetically directed by Lisa Rothe, and nimbly performed by Joel de la Fuente.
The post Theater Review: “Hold These…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:48AMTuesday, May 28, 2019
Edward Albee’s provocative theatrical exercise is far trickier to realize onstage than it is to appreciate on paper.
The post Theater Review: “The Goat or, Who is Sylvia?” — Greek Tr…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:18AMSaturday, February 9, 2019
I'm impressed with the new adaptation and depressed that it's considered necessary.
The post Book Review: Anne Frank’s Diary — The Graphic Version appeared first on The Arts Fuse.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:24PMThursday, January 17, 2019
Becoming is a contemporary woman's adventure told by an intelligent, funny narrator who took a leap out of her comfort zone and came out of it, with her family intact, to tell the tale.
The …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:06PMWednesday, December 19, 2018
The Barefoot Woman is lyrical but also informative and ethnographic, as much a memoir of a mother as it is of her way of life.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:36PMTuesday, December 4, 2018
I was excited, moved, impressed, and surprised by Handel & Haydn Society’s performance of The Messiah under the exacting baton of Bernard Labadie.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:32PMTuesday, October 16, 2018
Every performance of opera should leave an audience so exhilarated.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:54PMClaire Tomalin narrates her story with a prototypically English stiff upper lip, and a reticence about the personal.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:42AMTuesday, October 9, 2018
This is a first-rate production of a true American classic.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:18PMMonday, September 17, 2018
This slender memoir reads like a rambling conversation with a literary stranger you meet on a train.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:36PMTuesday, August 21, 2018
Mothers and Sons is one of veteran playwright Terrence NcNally's finest works.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:54PMSunday, August 12, 2018
The Barrington Stage Company's moving and fiercely energetic production brings West Side Story back to the stage with a bang.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:32PMWednesday, August 8, 2018
Educated is a testament to the power of sensitive friends and mentors -- and to Tara Westover's own resilience.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:04PMMonday, July 30, 2018
On the Couch is an extraordinary coffee table book for anyone interested in “recumbency” and how the couch became the icon of psychoanalysis.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:04PMSaturday, July 28, 2018
August Strindberg's Creditors turns out to be a play that speaks chillingly to our time.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:54AMFriday, July 27, 2018
Atung and Moy have a lot to say about American history and culture -- acutely informed by the playwright’s 21st century sensibility and identity politics.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:48AMTuesday, July 17, 2018
The action is set in an incongruous and ahistorical no-man’s land, adrift between realistic drama and farce.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:42AMWednesday, July 4, 2018
Who knew that there were dozens of first-rate female American, Scandinavian, German, Swiss, French and Russian painters in Paris in the second half of the 19th century?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:48PMMonday, July 2, 2018
The Closet is funny, brash, entertaining, and utterly forgettable.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:06AMTuesday, June 26, 2018
The Cake is a smart, stinging, and eerily timely comedy that feels timeless.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:04AMSunday, June 17, 2018
Having a father in prison meant radical changes in our everyday lives.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:32AMTuesday, May 29, 2018
This tautly-directed, well-cast production is filled with contemporary medical, political, and social resonances.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:12PM 
