Bill Marx

Theater Review: “The Comeuppance” — Reunions in the Age of Bad Choices

April 2, 2026
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The proceedings are continually involving, each of the performers supplying sufficient dramatic weight and interacting as a credible ensemble of characters rather than caricatures.

Theater Review: Standing Alone Among the Herd — Yale Rep’s Darkly Hilarious Revival of “Rhinoceros”

March 17, 2026
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“Rhinoceros” is a powerful wake-up call that, whether we like it nor not, we are writhing on the horns of a dilemma.

Theater Review: “You Are Cordially Invited to the End of the World!” — A Hardy Party

March 11, 2026
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Keiko Green’s play about the end of the world is a robust vaudevillian entertainment.

Theater Review: Gamm’s “Ghosts” — Ibsen’s Domestic Inferno Burns with Contemporary Heat

March 5, 2026
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Director Tony Estrella’s version of Ibsen’s tragedy smooths out an energetic path — the action moves along with compelling alacrity.

Theater Review: “Job” — Terminally Online

January 25, 2026
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“Job” is not so much a game of cat-and-mouse as a highly pressurized coffee klatch.

Theater Review: Working Up a “Hedda” Steam

December 13, 2025
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Two versions of “Hedda Gabler” — one gratifying, the other gauche.

Theater Review: “Metamorphoses” — Everybody in the Pool

October 9, 2025
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The Berkshire Theatre Group production of “Metamorphoses” is consistently engaging and, at times, deeply powerful.

Theater Review: “The Mountaintop” — A Room With a View of the Promised Land

September 24, 2025
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The Front Porch Arts Collective’s engaging revival of Katori Hall’s drama comes at a propitious time.

Theater Interview: Kai Maristed on “Paul and Émile” — The Vicissitudes of Friendship

September 22, 2025
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“If my work does have a recurrent theme, it is the pressure of the political/historical moment on individual choice.”

Theater Interview: “Investigating the New” — Actor/Director Vincent Murphy Reflects on Life and Theater

September 18, 2025
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What has made for a successful life in the theater? Living by the values Vincent Murphy imbibed as a member of Boston Children’s Theatre in the ’60s: “cooperation, creativity, listening, and play.”

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