Friday, May 15, 2026
Set amid the rituals and turmoils of barrio life, this contemporary take on "Oedipus Rex" trades Sophoclean complexity for theatrical vitality.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 2, 2026
The proceedings are continually involving, each of the performers supplying sufficient dramatic weight and interacting as a credible ensemble of characters rather than caricatures.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:24PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 17, 2026
"Rhinoceros" is a powerful wake-up call that, whether we like it nor not, we are writhing on the horns of a dilemma.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:12AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 11, 2026
Keiko Green's play about the end of the world is a robust vaudevillian entertainment.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 5, 2026
Director Tony Estrella's version of Ibsen's tragedy smooths out an energetic path -- the action moves along with compelling alacrity.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:36AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 25, 2026
"Job" is not so much a game of cat-and-mouse as a highly pressurized coffee klatch.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:02PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 13, 2025
Two versions of "Hedda Gabler" -- one gratifying, the other gauche.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:06PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 9, 2025
The Berkshire Theatre Group production of "Metamorphoses" is consistently engaging and, at times, deeply powerful.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:32AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 24, 2025
The Front Porch Arts Collective's engaging revival of Katori Hall's drama comes at a propitious time.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:54AM[SHARE]Monday, September 22, 2025
"If my work does have a recurrent theme, it is the pressure of the political/historical moment on individual choice."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:06AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 21, 2025
What has made for a successful life in the theater? Living by the values Vincent Murphy imbibed as a member of Boston Children's Theatre in the '60s: "cooperation, creativity, listening, and…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:48PM[SHARE]Monday, August 18, 2025
Overall, this is a satisfying production of a turn-of-the-century play that still underlines enduring economic inequity.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:18AM[SHARE]A trio of companies " Barrington Stage Company, Great Barrington Public Theater, and, to a lesser extent, Berkshire Theater Festival " draw on the stage's power to address our current politi…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:18AM[SHARE]The strongest element in this Arlekin production is the indelible stage images of loss and love, death and despair, memory and resilience, dreamed up by director Igor Golyak and his talented…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:18AM[SHARE]The high spirits and tolerance in this enjoyable production reinforce the director's claim that this comedy is about expats striving for "a more balanced, egalitarian society."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:18AM[SHARE]Friday, April 4, 2025
This is the most slickly engaging of Mfoniso Udofia's scripts so far, its domestic melodrama enlivened by welcome humor, detailed characterizations, and moments of pathos.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:12PM[SHARE]Monday, March 31, 2025
We desperately need plays and musicals -- produced by local companies with courage and nerve -- that acknowledge that the cancer of autocracy is here, today, and becoming stronger. That is t…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:06PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 20, 2025
The Russian dramatist's expansive application of ridicule, his picture of human society as an endless chain of fools fooling fools fooling fools, couldn't be more fitting -- it is a funhouse…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:18AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 12, 2025
Why did I help organize the Climate Crisis Cabaret? Because these are not normal times. And we need more theater like it.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:32PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 26, 2025
It is always a pleasure to see Ibsen on stage, but this staging of one of his masterpieces is generally humdrum.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:32PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 23, 2025
Revelatory reunions are a standard dramatic set-up, which explains why it takes quite a while for "The Grove" to gather some theatrical steam.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:54PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 5, 2025
This moving, at times beautiful, production evokes Michael K's vision of purity, a rejection of collective cruelty and madness that asserts human dignity's last stand -- as an animal.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:02PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 2, 2025
Sunday, November 17, 2024
Abigail C. Onwunali's powerhouse performance is memorable, but the mechanics of Mfoniso Udofia's play don't always match the lead's boundary-stretching strengths.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:12PM[SHARE]Monday, September 23, 2024
"Leopoldstadt" is one of Tom Stoppard's most heartfelt and expansive works, its poignant storyline inspired by events in his own life.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:24PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 15, 2024
Cinematic in inspiration, Diane Paulus's direction whips up terse bursts of adolescent energy, tapping into a cocky hunger for self-destructive combat.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:06PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 27, 2024
"It's not just some generic 'evil'Â "The Arsonists" protests, it is willful blindness to fascist and authoritarian agendas. Denial and hiding behind "bourgeois" comfort is the theme."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:06PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 28, 2024
A relaxed, humane kindness shines through this staging of Shakespeare's hymn to reconciliation.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:42PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 8, 2024
The Lyric Stage Company's production of David Henry Hwang's Obie award-winning play is serviceably absorbing.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:12PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 30, 2024
The script is representative of the pitfalls of current theatrical minimalism -- less can so easily be less.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:06AM[SHARE]Monday, April 22, 2024
"We need hope in the possibility of change in order to survive what's coming."
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