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Joann Green Breuer

May Short Fuses – Materia Critica

Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Review, Short Fuses Tagged: Adam Ellsworth, Chana Blankshteyn, Fear and Other Stories, George Walker, Gianandrea Noseda, Jacky Smith, Jason M. Rubin, Jim Jenkins, Joann Green Breuer, Jonathan Blumhofer, London-Symphony-Orchestra, Marco Pignataro, Mark Favermann, Queen: As It Began, Zoho Music

Book Review: “From a Distant Relation” — Drowning in Yiddish

What is evident throughout these superb tales of turn-of-century shtetl life is their authenticity.

By: Joann Green Breuer Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: From a Distant Relation, Joann Green Breuer, Mikhah Yosef Berdichevsky, shtetl, Yiddish

November Short Fuses – Materia Critica

Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Review, Short Fuses Tagged: Allen Michie, Angela-Hewitt, BR Klassik, Bright Shiny Things, Glenn, Glenn Rifkin, Hannah Collins, Hannah Kendall, Henry Beston, Huntington Theater Company, Hyperion, Joann Green Breuer, Jonathan Blumhofer, Lisa Fischer, Love songs, Phoenix, Resonance Line, Resonance Lines, Riccardo Muti, Shalin Liu Performance Center, Stewart Goodyear, Susan Miron, The Outermost House, Witch

Fuse Theater Recommendation: Tennessee Williams’ Original Acts Staged with Aplomb

In the perceptive hands of director Joann Green Breuer, the combination of scripts (stretching from the 1940’s to the 1970’s) proffers a compelling meditation on Tennessee Williams’ exploration of women and desire, as well as some surprising spins on his classic plays.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Theater Tagged: Dee Nelson, I Never Get Dressed Until Dark on Sundays, Interior: Panic, Joann Green Breuer, Skip Ascheim, Tennessee Williams: Original Acts, tennessee-Williams, The Dark Room, The Pretty Trap, The Vineyard Playhouse

Fuse Film Clips: Focus on the Boston Jewish Film Festival, Final Films

A Jewish film festival is at heart a communal event, even longer than Hanukkah. If one needs proof of community, see who the sponsors are. By Joann Green Breuer. My final film of this year’s Boston Jewish Film Festival was The Girl from a Reading Primer, directed by Edyta Wroblewska in Poland. It is short […]

By: Joann Green Breuer Filed Under: Film Tagged: Boston Jewish Film Festival, Five Hours from Paris, Joann Green Breuer, Saviors in the Night, The Girl From a Reading Primer

Book Review: Mamet’s Minimal-Minded ‘Theatre’

Theatre by David Mamet. Faber and Faber, 157 pages, $22 Reviewed By Joann Green Breuer David Mamet’s concise and consistently frustrating book, Theatre, informs even while it infuriates, arguing for throwing out babes with the bath water as if theatre could, or should, make a splash without them. Get your towels out. But as you […]

By: Joann Green Breuer Filed Under: Books, Featured, Theater Tagged: David Mamet, Joann Green Breuer, Small Theatre Handbook, Theater, theatre

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