Theater
What Ain Gordon’s play demonstrates is that even when records are indecipherable and incomplete, we still have the right, and perhaps the responsibility, to imagine what happened.
Updated with new theater and classical music recommendations. Arts Fuse critics select some of the most promising in music, theater, and film for the coming week. A new feature!
Arts Fuse critics select some of the most promising in music, theater, and film for the coming week. A new feature!
“Fifty Shades of Grey”‘s infamous “red room of pain,” where Christian Grey keeps his S&M tools neat and clean, is never displayed, while none of the novel’s dominant-submissive sexual fetishes are exploited for sly laughs.
“From Denmark with Love” is playwright John J. King’s amusing mash-up of Shakespeare’s Danish tragedy and Ian Fleming’s Secret Agent 007.
“Rapture, Blister, Burn” feels less like an exploration of feminism today than a clever sitcom pilot that won’t be able to sustain its jokes for an entire season.
Arts Fuse critics select some of the most promising in music, theater, and film for the coming week. A new feature!
Stage Commentary: The Need for a Theater of Transformation
Theater taught me how to draw parallels, to condense, to delete triviality and to recognize significance.
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