Friday, August 6, 2021
These days, I'm not in a mood to be comforted in the theater by either toasting or roasting chestnuts.
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:03PMThursday, September 12, 2019
Carolyn Michel's Rose is the sociable stranger on the bus who tempts you to miss your stop so you can hear her out to the end.
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:18AMThursday, August 29, 2019
When you do this kind of thing it has to be done with bravura and wit — bad poets borrow, good poets steal.
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:18AMThursday, August 15, 2019
Dumas' Camille is nothing if not ambitious. Such complexity is seldom found on a summer stage.
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:03AMThursday, August 1, 2019
This review, like the opening night of She Loves Me, is dedicated to the life and work of the late producer Harold Prince.
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:36AMThursday, July 18, 2019
This production of Morning's at Seven is a celebration of Peterborough's theatrical family as much as it is the depiction of a fictional one.,/em>
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:36PMThursday, July 4, 2019
In two short acts, playwright Win Wells depicts not so much a relationship as a fusion, a merging of identities into one single, complex personality.
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:03PMThursday, June 20, 2019
Written more than a decade ago, Mahida's Extra Key to Heaven falls all too painfully closely in line with current events.
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:18PMThursday, August 30, 2018
Sexy Laundry airs the linen of a twenty-five-year marriage from which the colors seem to have faded, and the whites yellowed.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:18AMThursday, August 16, 2018
George Bernard Shaw's The Man of Destiny could be an evening of delight with a frisson of cerebral exercise.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:36AMThursday, July 19, 2018
For all its Edwardian setting and its mid-twentieth-century no-exit philosophy, The Inspector Calls speaks with ease to our own times, bedeviled with "alternate facts" and ethical doubts.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:12AMWednesday, July 4, 2018
Thornton Wilder's Big Ideas do not get lost in the hurly-burly of this production.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:48PMSaturday, February 17, 2018
David Lindsay-Abaire's tightly woven comic script celebrates the everyday relationships that make up an argument for a full life.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:28AMThursday, December 14, 2017
Here, then, are two books that provide a fine literary introduction to one of the richest flowerings of poetry in European culture.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:54PMTuesday, December 12, 2017
Russian poet Grennady Aygi wrote as an outsider, an ethnic outlier as well as a free-verse stylist of his generation.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:42PMThursday, August 17, 2017
The ethical deliberations and the professional backbiting and banter of the doctors -- in the skilled hands of the director and cast -- is energized by genuine camaraderie.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:12PMFriday, July 7, 2017
Nick Payne's fascinating Constellations takes the cosmic paradoxes of time head on.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:24AMFriday, June 23, 2017
Flawed and perhaps overwrought, The Whipping Man is worth watching because of the intensity of its individual scenes.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:06AMThursday, February 16, 2017
This Peterborough Players production deserves a longer run than it has in the company's inaugural winter season.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:54AMFriday, February 3, 2017
Profoundly conservative and radically fresh, Mass Appeal justifies its title in the Peterborough Players fine production.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:32AMThursday, September 15, 2016
Cry Havoc's message is clear: We expend energy and effort in preparing young men and women for war, but effort or energy in re-engaging them into the life of not-war.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:57AMThursday, August 4, 2016
The staging is a brash translation of Shaw's early twentieth-century delicacy into twenty-first century Yankee sensibilities.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:03AMFriday, July 22, 2016
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike goes on about a half hour too long, but the quality of the acting overcomes the longueurs.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:44PMThursday, July 7, 2016
A two-person engagement like Annapurna demands that mysterious quality from actors that we call "chemistry."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:04AMFriday, June 24, 2016
This production of Driving Miss Daisy isn't about conflict and irresolution, but sentimental reassurance.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:34AMThursday, September 10, 2015
Dan Hodge turns two hundred and fifty stanzas of Shakespeare's rhyme royal into the stuff of a high-class poetry slam.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:42AMThursday, August 13, 2015
Writing seriously about a play that might not be meant to be taken so seriously presents a risk, but the provocation embedded in the social message of Born Yesterday can't be escaped.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:32AMThursday, July 30, 2015
This production of Charley's Aunt has the rhythm of a Mozart operatic finale -- all the parts contribute to a dizzy harmony.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:03AMThursday, July 16, 2015
John Patrick Shanley's Outside Mullingar is a romantic comedy, so you can guess the dénouement, but all the fun is in getting there.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:56AMThursday, June 18, 2015
There is little for the audience to take away from Red, except the anecdotal dramatization of an event inspired by Mark Rothko's career.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:10AMSaturday, December 6, 2014
Marian Schwartz's careful translation of Anna Karenina is exquisitely mindful of the book's complex linguistic texture.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:57AM 
