Arts Fuse Editor
In all of his books, John Julius Norwich remembered that history is a story.
One of the fears of poets and, I imagine, all writers, is that you’ll reach a certain age and you’ll run out of gas.
For most of its history, jazz has been a macho culture. Sexual ambiguity or gay-ness were subjects of derision.
Not all of the production’s choices pay off, but Hamnet is a fascinating, one-of-a-kind play that strikes at a universal sense of longing.
While Beth Genné proffers a terrific take on dance and its social context, she exhibits a shaky grasp of musical-theater history.
We need a satire that takes Trump’s radical threat more seriously than Vicuña.
All of Shirkers demonstrates the wonderfulness of making cinema. I Am Not a Witch dramatizes the mystery and solidarity of accused witches.
Stephen Adly Guirgis has written a fine play about those who would blur their minds rather than admit just how tired they are.

Arts Commentary: Another View of “The Niceties”
To an extent, The Niceties does probe a fault line between the Democratic Party and the left: a boundary that will rupture sooner rather than later.
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