The late Nicholas Martin — an ebullient, mirthful spirit.
Theater Review: “The Wholehearted” — Ringside at a Troubled Psyche
What makes “The Wholehearted” compelling is how it examines the metaphor of fighting as both a pubic career and as an aspect of domestic violence.
Fuse Theater Review: “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” — Too Much Clutter, Too Little Poetry
All the prancing about onstage with planks of wood, actors climbing into eight-foot large puppet skeletons, is marvelous to behold, but it makes for an uneven, confusing production.
Theater Review: A Pitch Black “House/Divided”
“House/Divided” – a mélange of dazzling videography, startling and inventive lighting/props/stage craft, and spoken snippets of John Steinbeck’s quasi-Biblical prose – does not add anything new to our understanding of the current national malaise.
Theater Review: “Working, A Musical” — A Pleasantly Uneven Hymn to the Working Man
The challenges of this musical are to keep things buoyant yet insightful (and with some backbone) about a subject many of us dread, namely work and its drudgery.
Book Review: Hail to The Kid — Ted Williams
This expansive biography of Ted Williams is not awash in sentimentally, thanks to Ben Bradlee’s praiseworthy search for the facts, no matter where they lead, and his command of language, honed during his 25-year career as a reporter and editor at “The Boston Globe.”
Fuse Music Review: Boston Pops Orchestra and the Holiday Pops — Some Makeover Ideas
Would it be all that nervy to ask if, in the coming years, there might be more, not less, musical experimentation? Couldn’t the Boston Pops commission a new seasonal work and showcase it?
Fuse Theater Review: “Becky’s New Car” — A Song of the Open Road
“Becky’s New Car” turns out to be a ride worth taking, especially if we suspend our disbelief long enough to embrace the notion that malice is not necessarily aforethought even though our actions might be construed to suggest otherwise.
Theater Review: “Waiting for Godot” — Dramatizing the Residue of Resilience
This remains a vision of a dystopian universe, but in the hands of these performers “Waiting for Godot”‘s angst exudes as much antic warmth as it does cold angst.
Theater Feature: Tennessee Williams Theater Festival 2013 — An Exemplary Year
Tennessee Williams was a prolific writer, and each season the Festival presents an unfinished play or little known work from his vast canon.