• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • About
  • Donate

The Arts Fuse

Boston's Online Arts Magazine: Dance, Film, Literature, Music, Theater, and more

  • Podcasts
  • Coming Attractions
  • Reviews
  • Interviews
  • Commentary
  • The Arts
    • Performing Arts
      • Dance
      • Music
      • Theater
    • Other
      • Books
      • Film
      • Food
      • Television
      • Visual Arts

Wellesley College

Fuse Book Interview: Novelist and Short-Story Writer Nathan Englander Is Happy to Go Back to Basics

Nathan Englander’s first play, “The Twenty-Seventh Man,” opens at the Public Theater in New York tonight. Fuse Editor Bill Marx spoke to the acclaimed, best-selling writer about the script and the production when Englander visited Wellesley College recently.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: Barry Edelstein, For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, Nathan Englander, The Ministry of Special Cases, The Public Theater, The Twenty-seventh Man, Wellesley College, What We Talk about When We Talk About Anne Frank, Yiddish

Coming Attactions in Theater: October 2011

It is encouraging that the list of recommendations for October isn’t filled with musicals. Are straight plays back? I wouldn’t count on it in this economic climate. So let’s bask in the chance to hear words without music.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Theater Tagged: A Raisin in the Sun, Actors-From-the-London-Stage, ArtsEmerson, Before I Leave You, Boston Playwrights Theatre, Buddy Cop 2, Cahoot's Macbeth, Clybourne Park, Company One, Dogg's Hamlet, Double, Double Toil and Trouble (A witches' brew of Shakespeare remixed), Gold Dust Orphans, Happy Medium Theatre, Hartford Stage, Huntington-Theatre-Company, imaginary-beasts, In the Red and Brown Water, Macbett, Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom, Oberon, Quiara Alegría Hudes, Rosanna Yamagiwa Alfaro, Salem Theatre Company, Stoneham Theater, Tarell Alvin McCraney, The Civilians, The Debate Society, The Farm, The Rocky Horror Show, The Tempest, The Woman in Black, Tiny Kushner, Trinity Repertory Company, Water by the Spoonful, Wellesley College, Whistler in the Dark Theatre, William-Shakespeare, You Better Sit Down: Tales from My Parents' Divorce, Zeitgeist Stage Company

Coming Attractions at Museums: March 2011

Highlights this month in museums around New England include an exhibition of poetic and playful furniture, photographs and videos that radically rethink how a museum should treat art objects, and a show featuring an African artist who specializes in large, shimmering sculptures composed of recycled liquor bottle tops. By Peter Walsh. The van Otterloo Collection, […]

By: Peter Walsh Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Visual Arts Tagged: Bennington Collects, Bennington Museum, Currier Museum of Art, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, El Anatusi, Jon Brooks, Labeltalk 2011: Art of the Ancient World, Marianne Mueller, PEM, The van Otterloo Collection, Wellesley College, Williams College Museum of Art

Theater Review: Actors From the London Stage at Wellesley

Once again we are indebted to Wellesley College for bringing to town Actors From the London Stage (AFTLS). This is the fifth visit the 35-year-old institution has made here. Each fall five seasoned Shakespeareans from England take up residence at U.S. colleges for a week, conducting workshops and seminars with students. Reviewed by Caldwell Titcomb.

By: Caldwell Titcomb Filed Under: Theater Tagged: Actors-From-the-London-Stage, Caldwell-Titcomb, Wellesley College, William-Shakespeare

Coming Attractions at Museums: February 2010

By Peter Walsh Luis Meléndez: Master of the Spanish Still Life, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA through May 9. Locked into a low-status, unprofitable niche, talented Spanish still-life painter Luis Meléndez (1716–1780) made little money and achieved even less fame during his lifetime. He is said to have complained to the king, who never […]

By: Peter Walsh Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Visual Arts Tagged: Andrea Fraser, Asian Journeys, Boston, Boston Athenaeum, Boston College, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Charles Simic, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, George Nama, harvard-university, Lisa Fischmann, Luis Meléndez, mcmullen-museum, Museum of Fine Arts, New England, peter-Walsh, Rockefellers, Stephen Vitiello, Visual Arts, Wellesley College

Theater Review: Actors From the London Stage

Actors From the London Stage (AFTLS) proves that when it comes to the Bard the minimal may be maximal. Reviewed by Caldwell Titcomb Shakespeare’s challenging “King Lear” is the vehicle for this year’s fall tour of the troupe called Actors From the London Stage (AFTLS). This project was begun in 1975, and has been flourishing […]

By: Caldwell Titcomb Filed Under: Books, Featured, Theater Tagged: Actors-From-the-London-Stage, AFTLS, Caldwell-Titcomb, King Lear, Wellesley College

Primary Sidebar

Search

Popular Posts

  • Television Review: “Surviving Death” — Probing Death and The Great Beyond Surviving Death's balance between personal experiences... posted on January 11, 2021
  • Jazz Album Review: “El Arte del Bolero” — Passionate Homage to the Era of the Bolero So Miguel Zenón, who on saxophone has the facility of a... posted on January 5, 2021
  • Arts Feature: Best Movies (With Some Disappointments) of 2020 Our demanding critics choose the best films (along with... posted on December 21, 2020
  • Arts Feature: Best Classical Recordings of 2020 The pandemic may have largely shut down live musical pe... posted on December 22, 2020
  • Film/Music Review: The Best Music Documentaries of 2020 — With Some Disppointments Some of the best music documentaries of 2020 - and some... posted on December 29, 2020

Social

Follow us:

Follow the Conversation

  • Bill Marx, Editor of The Arts Fuse January 15, 2021 at 11:44 am on Film Review: “Pieces of a Woman” — “They give birth astride of a grave…”The quotation in the review's headline is part of a line in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot: "They give birth...
  • erica abeel January 14, 2021 at 3:31 pm on Film Review: “Let Them All Talk” — Angst of Many FlavorsI'm most grateful to be read by such responsive readers as you guys!
  • Luca Schlichte January 14, 2021 at 8:25 am on Television Review: “Surviving Death” — Probing Death and The Great BeyondPerhaps they'll explore that in another season. :)
  • Jeremy January 13, 2021 at 10:43 am on Film Review: Killing Time in God’s Waiting Room — A Moving Picture about Life in Florida’s “The Villages”Christine, revisiting my comment, I realize it was intemperate. A have an old war wound from my time in 'Nam...
  • Christine Francois January 12, 2021 at 3:18 pm on Film Review: Killing Time in God’s Waiting Room — A Moving Picture about Life in Florida’s “The Villages”Jeremy (if that's your real name), what make the writer of the review a "terrible person"? The reviewer speaks of...

Footer

  • About Us
  • Advertising/Underwriting
  • Syndication
  • Media Resources
  • Editors and Contributors

We Are

Boston’s online arts magazine since 2007. Powered by 70+ experts and writers.

Follow Us

Monthly Archives

Categories

"Use the point of your pen, not the feather." -- Jonathan Swift

Copyright © 2021 · The Arts Fuse - All Rights Reserved · Website by Stephanie Franz