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Bill Marx

Arts Commentary/Interview: Some Thoughts on The Climate Crisis and Theater

How can we create theater that practices critique and empathy in relation to climate change that simultaneously challenges and lifts us, provokes and provides a muscular hope?

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Interview, Theater Tagged: Climate Crisis, Debra Wise, The Underground Railway Theater

Theater Review: “The Wife of Willesden” — Pleasantly Bawdy

If the production sends at least some of the audience members back to the magnificent poetry of The Canterbury Tales, it would have done a mitzvah.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: A.R.T., American Repertory Theater, Chaucer, Indhu Rubasingham, middle ages, The Wife of Willesden, Wife of Bath, Zadie Smith

Theater Review: “Fairview” — A Room With a View?

It is refreshing to encounter a script that is so determined to keep audiences off-kilter as it goes about undercutting domestic business as usual.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Fairview, Jackie Sibblies Drury, Pascale Florestal, SpeakEasy Stage Company

Coming Attractions: February 12 Through 28 — What Will Light Your Fire

As the age of Covid-19 more or less wanes, Arts Fuse critics supply a guide to film, dance, visual art, theater, author readings, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Featured, Preview Tagged: Bill-Marx, Jon Garelick, Jonathan Blumhofer, Matt Hanson, Merli V. Guerra, Noah Schafer, peter-Walsh, Steve Elman, Tim Jackson

Theater Review: “Made in China 2.0” — The Art of Taking Risks

Made in China 2.0 is valuable as an act of theatrical witnessing, the voice of a rebel who is facing considerable challenges from the powers that be.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Arts Emerson, Chinese Theater, dissident theater, Made in China 2.0., political-theater, Wang Chong

Coming Attractions: January 15 Through 31 — What Will Light Your Fire

As the age of Covid-19 more or less wanes, Arts Fuse critics supply a guide to film, dance, visual art, theater, author readings, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Featured, Preview Tagged: Bill-Marx, Jon Garelick, Jonathan Blumhofer, Matt Hanson, Merli V. Guerra, Noah Schaffer, peter-Walsh, Tim Jackson

Theater Feature: Favorite Stage Productions of 2022

Our theater critics pick some of the outstanding productions in a year haunted by COVID.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: American Repertory Theater, Bill-Marx, Bob Israel, Carlos Uriona, David Greenham, Double Edge Theate, Double Edge Theatre Company, Joe-Turners-Come-and-Gone, Rites, Sea Sick, Stacy Klein, The Hidden Territories of the Bacchae, The Huntington Theatre Company, The Life of Pi, The New Galileos

Music Feature: The Best Jazz Albums of 2022

The magazine’s jazz critics look back over the past year and highlight their favorite albums.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Jazz Tagged: Allen Michie, Jon Garelick, Michael Ullman, Steve Feeney

Arts Commentary/Interview: The Climate Crisis and Theater — A Playwright’s Perspective

Do we feel the environment breakdown in our gut? Will people looking back see art that conveyed the existential threat of the emergency?

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Interview, Theater Tagged: Bill McKibben, Climate Crisis, nature, politics, Theater, Tira Palmquist, Two Degrees

Coming Attractions: November 6 through 22 — What Will Light Your Fire

As the age of Covid-19 more or less wanes, Arts Fuse critics supply a guide to film, dance, visual art, theater, author readings, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Featured, Preview Tagged: Bill-Marx, Jon Garelick, Matt Hanson, Merli V. Guerra, Noah Schaffer, peter-Walsh, Tim Jackson

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