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Film Review: “Joy Ride” – (Double the fun)

Bobcat Goldthwait and Dana Gould almost died for their comedy; then they hit the road to get laughs about it.

By: Ed Symkus Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Bobcat Goldthwait, comedy, Dana Gould, documentary, Ed Symkus, Joy Ride

TV Review: “3 Mics”—Neal Brennan’s Innovative Stand Up

Neal Brennan’s mix-and-match of styles manages to combine deadpan sensibility with shocking poignancy.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Television Tagged: 3 Mics, comedy, Matt Hanson, Neal Brennan, Netflix

Film Review: Genius, Undiminished — “Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You”

There has never been a better time in America to reconsider the importance of television’s role in the political discourse.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: All in the Family, comedy, documentary, Good Times, Maude, Norman Lear, Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You, Peg Aloi, Television

Stage Review: Not much of a “Cakewalk”

An air of anachronism hangs over the ZSC production of Cakewalk, particularly regarding its treatment of racial and social issues.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Cakewalk, Canadian, Colleen Curran, comedy, David Miller, Kamela Dolinova, Zeitgeist Stage Company

Fuse Theater Review: “Choice” — Call Ghostbusters

It is hard to figure out just what playwright Winnie Holzman is up to in Choice: is this a supernatural sit-com?

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Abortion, Choice, comedy, Huntington-Theatre-Company, Johanna Day, Winnie Holzman

Film Review: “Meet the Patels”—The Search for Married Bliss, The Indian Way

Does Meet the Patels ever go deeper than an amusing family comedy? It does for a time…

By: Gerald Peary Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: comedy, documentary, Geeta Patel, Meet the Patels, Ravi Patel

Theater Review: Peterborough Players’ “Born Yesterday” — The More Things Change …

Writing seriously about a play that might not be meant to be taken so seriously presents a risk, but the provocation embedded in the social message of Born Yesterday can’t be escaped.

By: Jim Kates Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Born Yesterday, comedy, Garson Kanin, Gus Kaikkonen, Peterborough Players, Post-war

Theater Review: “Out of Sterno” — Absurd to the Point of Distraction

Out of Sterno punches the same punchline far too often.

By: Robert Israel Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: comedy, Deborah Zoe Laufer, farce, feminism, Gloucester Stage Company, Out of Sterno, Paula Plum, Richard Snee

Film Review: “Adult Beginners” — Learning the Same Old Lessons

The comedy-tinged-with-drama touches on themes tackled by a bunch of recent indie movies that center on characters in their thirties and forties who feel like imposters in the world of adults.

By: Betsy Sherman Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Adult Beginners, comedy, drama, Nick Kroll, Ross Katz

Film Preview: Alec Guinness Films Galore at the Museum of Fine Arts

Not since the closing of Boston’s Exeter Street Theatre have so many of Alex Guinness’s classic films been available to be viewed on a local big screen.

By: Paul Dervis Filed Under: Featured, Film, Preview Tagged: Alex Guiness, comedy, David Lean, English film, epic, museum-of-fine-arts-boston, Paul Dervis

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