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Bill Marx

Theater Review: “Screwball” — Laughter’s Saving Grace

This is an indelibly zany concoction: part homage, part esprit de corps, part meditation on screwball comedy as a form of modest but invigorating cheer.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Beau Jest Moving Theater, Davis Robinson, eff Blanchette, Jay Bragan, Kathleen Lewis, Lauren Hallal, Lisa Tucker, Robin JaVonne Smith, Slapstick, Sullivan's Travels

Film Commentary: More Memorable Movies Turning 50

The clamor to do justice to 1972 did not cease, so here are salutes to four additional films, The Getaway, Last House on the Left, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, and What’s Up Doc?.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review, Uncategorized Tagged: Last House on the Left, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The Getaway, What's Up Doc?

Theater Commentary: “1776” — American Theater Jigs as Democracy Dies?

Maybe I am an alarmist and the rich and powerful know something the rest of us don’t. Perhaps the midterms will not put another nail in the coffin of democracy. Apparently, it will be business as usual for the A.R.T. and other American theaters — until it can’t be.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Theater Tagged: 1776, American Repertory Theater, Diane Paulus

THE ARTS FUSE TURNS 15! — Support the Magazine’s Spring Appeal

Please help us bring the arts and culture community roaring back to life by supporting this magazine and its independent coverage.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Commentary, Featured Tagged: Spring Appeal

Theater Commentary: Burnt Norton

What will guarantee obsolescence? If members of the BTCA continue to embrace a “whatever is, is right” attitude to Boston’s stage scene.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Theater Tagged: Bill-Marx, Boston Theater Critics Association, Elliot Norton Prize

Theater Review: “Sea Sick” — How Damned Is the Ocean?

Personable but bracing, Sea Sick delivers an essential message: not only about the damage that is being done to the oceans, but the horrors that are coming down the pike.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Alanna Mitchell, Climate Change, Climate Crisis, Sea Sick

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

Theater Review: “Burgerz” — Food Court

Non-binary people have plenty to be angry about these days, but Burgerz is not an attempt to shock or strike back in anger.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Burgerz, non-binary, trans, transgender theater, Travis Alabanza

April 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, Andres Institute of Art, Blind Passion, Evelyn Rosenthal, Free Love, Jan Lisiecki, Jonathan Blumhofer, Katriona Taylor, Ladybug, Lori Zuroff, Mark Favermann, Night Music, Orange Mountain Music, Scott Moore, Simoine Dinnerstein, Steve Provizer, Tessa Hadley, Tim Jackson, Undersong, Waking World, Youn Sun Nah

Theater Review: “Everyday Life and Other Odds and Ends” — “This Whole Going Downhill Thing”

Everyday Life and Other Odds and Ends is admirable because it takes contemporary theater into fresh territory — the slow paralysis of the body and the demands this decline makes on caregivers.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: ArtsEmerson, Charlotte Meehan, Everyday Life and Other Odds and Ends, Sleeping Weazel

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