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Theater Review: “Mr Joy” — Empowerment Overload

It is no longer enough for a playwright to go into the belly of the ‘beast’ and pray for help.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: African-American, Arts Emerson, Daniel-Beaty, David Dower, Mr. Joy, Tangela Large

Theater Review: “appropriate” — Southern Gothic, Entertainingly Deconstructed

In appropriate, a talented young playwright turns mischievous literary homage into a work of exhilarating entertainment.

By: Robert Israel Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: African-American, appropriate, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, M. Bevin O'Gara, Racism, Southern history, SpeakEasy Stage Company

Book Review: “Half an Inch of Water” — Nine Stories that Peer Memorably into Eternity

One of the hardest things to do as a writer of contemporary fiction is to create characters who are good.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: African-American, American fiction, Graywolf, Percival Everett, short stories, Ted Kehoe

Movie Review: “Dope” — A Liberating Coming-of-Age Film

The impish comedy and refreshingly realistic perspective of Dope questions easy answers to pressing racial problems.

By: Tim Jackson Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: African-American, Dope, Rick Famuyiwa

Fuse Theater Review: “Intimate Apparel” — An Affecting Vision of Constriction

The Lyric Stage is presenting a moving production of Lynn Nottage’s cautionary tale about strength of character tragically misdirected.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: African-American, Intimate Apparel, Lynn Nottage, Lyric stage company of boston, Summer l. Williams

Film Review: “No No: A Dockumentary” — Could Use a Touch of Madness

No No: A Dockumentary presents a textured portrait, on and off the field, of ’70s pitching phenomenon Dock Ellis.

By: Betsy Sherman Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: African-American, Baseball, Dock Ellis, documentary, Jeffrey Radice, No No: A Dockumentary

Book Review: “The Good Lord Bird” — History As a Morality Tale, With Wings

There is more than one way to tell the truth, “The Good Lord Bird” reminds us again and again, and many reasons to cloak it in humor.

By: Clea Simon Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: African-American, civil-war, Clea Simon, historical fiction, James McBride, National Book Award, The Good Lord Bird

Visual Arts Review: At the MFA — Bruce Davidson’s Dramatic Vision of ’60s Harlem

Despite the show’s darkness, “East 100th Street”‘s exploration of Harlem in the ’60s is in many ways a testament to the endurance of love.

By: Holly Bieler Filed Under: Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: African-American, Bruce Davidson, Harlem, Museum of Fine Arts, Photography

Theater Review: Freedom for “The Whipping Man”

An unusual and powerful historical drama that looks at the troubled relationship between Jews and freed slaves at the end of The Civil War.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Theater Tagged: African-American, Hartford Stage, Jewish, Matthew Lopez, The Civil War, The Whipping Man

Fuse Theater Review: Death Be Not Sappy

William King is a loving, self-sacrificing, salt-of-the-earth character mooning over the vanished past; Sonia is a saintly wife yearning for hubby to join her in Heaven; the sons care for each other and for their father—time to pull out your hankies. Broke-ology by Nathan Louis Jackson. Directed by Benny Sato Ambush. Staged by the Lyric […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Theater Tagged: African-American, Broke-ology, Lyric stage company of boston

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