Grand Concourse does wondrous things: it encourages us ponder our own growth toward faith while emphasizing with the struggles of others.
Thomas Derrah
Fuse Theater Review: “Casa Valentina”—Dovetailing Hilarity and Heartbreak
Casa Valentina’s dramatic weight comes from how skillfully the cast explores the tensions that swirl about the subject of who is gay, who is straight, and what is legal.
Theater Review: ASP’s Powerful “God’s Ear” — The Poetics of Grief
Actors’ Shakespeare Project’s superb production of God’s Ear honors this beautiful text.
Theater Interview: Wordsmiths Strike Back — The Poets’ Theatre Redux
We intend to stage work by all the living American poets we can lure into our sphere: starting right here in Cambridge.
Theater Review: Eighteenth Century Pen Pals — Voltaire and Frederick
Playwright Gericke-Schönhagen, hoping to avoid the phenomenon of talking heads, deliberately placed emphasis on those letters between Voltaire and Frederick that dramatized personalities rather than ideas.
Theater Feature: A German Stage at the Goethe-Institut Boston
“The Boston theatre community can always profit from international influx. The German theatre scene in particular is quite innovative both in the plays being written and the productions that reach the stage.”
Theater Review: A Visual Artist Looks at “Red”
Arts Fuse Critic (and visual artist) Franklin Einspruch reviews “Red,” a drama about Mark Rothko, and doesn’t like what he sees.
Stage Interview: Thomas Derrah on the Appeal of “Red”
“Red” is about creativity and destruction, Apollonian rigor and Dionysian instinct, fathers and sons, love and rejection, life and death.
Theater Review: A Rewarding “Red”
“Red” is a drama about the modern artist and his place in art history: at its center, painter Mark Rothko confronts fame and the commoditization of creativity in the world of contemporary art.
Theater Review: R. Buckminster Fuller — I Sing the Body Geodesic
D.W. Jacobs’s presentation of the life and ideas of American visionary R. Buckminster Fuller invites you to make your own intellectual structure out of what you have seen—connect Fuller’s dots and you have an image that expands your mental horizons or at the very least ups your powers of analysis and recall. R. Buckminster Fuller: […]