Thursday, April 16, 2026
In this high-energy comedy of creative frustration, history"and hubris"repeat themselves to hilarious effect.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:02AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 15, 2026
The true star of the Lyric Stage production is Aimee Doherty, who is marvelous in the role of Penelope.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:54AM[SHARE]Friday, January 2, 2026
"Wonder" aspires to make us more empathetic and to help us "choose kind."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 25, 2025
Sometimes the stranger is someone who is very well known to us, like a father whose strange ways include a devotion to a certain story about a childhood in Wales.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:12AM[SHARE]Friday, November 7, 2025
The themes of "Lizard Boy" would land more squarely"and more powerfully"with a teenage audience than they can with those of us who can only recall such a time in our lives.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:36AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 27, 2025
The play eventually packs a wallop, but it drags its feet at the start.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:06AM[SHARE]Monday, March 31, 2025
"The Triumph of Love" lacks the physical comedy and swift action that usually characterize a farce. Here the dialogue is the action.Â
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:36PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 5, 2025
"A Man of No Importance" is a fitting finale for Paul Daigneault's tenure as Artistic Director of SpeakEasy Stage Company because it is a paean to the power of theater as both an artistic ex…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:54PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 2, 2025
A story of divorce and self-discovery may be worth telling, but it suffers when it is interwoven with a life narrative that is clearly weighter.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:06AM[SHARE]Saturday, October 5, 2024
Tony winning playwright Joe DiPietro does a commendable job of dramatizing the true-life confrontation between Margaret Chase Smith and Joseph McCarthy while they were both serving in the Un…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:06PM[SHARE]Monday, June 17, 2024
The creators of "Gatsby" have fashioned some creative ways to make the story seem more contemporary. None of that, however, seems enough to justify the enormous amount of energy and talent t…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:06AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 4, 2024
The excellent ensemble of Huntington Theatre Company actors, fittingly, work well as a team.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:12AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 24, 2024
Critical to the success of "Cost of Living" is playwright Martyna Majok's refusal to resort to tropes about people with disabilities and those who care for them.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:48AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 6, 2024
The energizing force of this production comes from the students and, more specifically, the cohort of young women in the cast, each of whom is excellent.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:48AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 4, 2024
This is one of the more engaging pieces of theatre I have experienced in some time.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:48PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 16, 2023
As satisfying as this incomplete work is -- much like Schubert's "Unfinished Symphony," which the composer inexplicably abandoned six years before his death -- we can still regret not being …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:36AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 28, 2023
Murder mystery and farce can coexist in the same play… for a time, at least. Eventually, the two will pull apart, however, as they do in this production.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:06AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 24, 2023
Even before the lights come up on the remarkable new production by Moonbox Productions, it is clear that this is a "Sweeney Todd" of a different order.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:33AM[SHARE]Friday, October 6, 2023
By Martin B. Copenhaver Assassins Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Book by John Weidman. Directed by Courtney O'Connor. Staged by the Lyric Stage Company of Boston at 140 Clarendon Stre…
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