Bill Marx

Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

January 3, 2014
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in dance, film, and theater that’s coming up this week.

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Theater Feature: Best Stage Productions of 2013

December 29, 2013
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Fuse Theater critics pick some of the outstanding shows of the past year.

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Theater Review: An Amusing “Heart of Robin Hood”

December 23, 2013
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What is refreshing about the muscular back-flipping in David Farr’s amusing rewrite of the Robin Hood fable is that Maid Marion is as much into derring-do as the Merry Men.

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Theater Review: Shakespeare’s “Henry VIII” — History as Smoke, Mirrors, and Spectacle

December 19, 2013
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Given how rarely “Henry VIII” is staged, any Shakespeare enthusiast worth his or her salt should definitely take in this uneven production.

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Theater Review: Chekhov Lite — “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike”

December 17, 2013
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Chekhov’s jokes are the inevitable by-products of his characters confronting life’s absurdities; Christopher Durang is content to wring laughs out of wacky situations and cartoon caricatures.

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Theater Review: “Mies Julie” — Writhing in the Danger Zone

December 5, 2013
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In her compelling deconstruct/rewrite of “Miss Julie,” set in South Africa 18 years after the end of apartheid, director/dramatist Yaël Farber doubles down on the elemental energies of Greek tragedy.

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Theater Review: “The Cocktail Hour” — A Pick-Me-Up for Waning WASPS

November 25, 2013
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With the 1% rapidly vacuuming up the resources of the upper and middle classes, A.R. Gurney’s comic vision of the tipsy idle rich, shorn of cares and criminality, floats completely free of reality.

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Arts Fuse Year-End Fundraiser: Once More unto the Breach, Dear Friends, Once More

November 23, 2013
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Please send tax deductible dollars to “The Arts Fuse” so the magazine can continue to serve its mission — we need funds to pay our writers, to continue to grow our readership, and to raise our visibility around the region.

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Theater Review: “The After-Dinner Joke” — How We are Out-Sourcing Our Consciences

November 15, 2013
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British dramatist Caryl Churchill proffers a valuable line of satiric attack on our delusions of doing good, so it is easy to forgive the dramatist her broad and scattershot comic approach.

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Fuse Theater Review: Kurt Vonnegut Redux? Not in “Make Up Your Mind”

November 6, 2013
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Unfortunately, there are only flickers of Kurt Vonnegut’s dark and playful genius in “Make Up Your Mind.”

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