Bill Marx

Theater Commentary: Notes Toward a Definition of Theater, Part One — “Be Bold and Wild”

August 25, 2020
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As we grapple with building the brave new world of live theater in a Covid and post-Covid world, a few stray thoughts.

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Critical/Theater Commentary: Slapping Sleeping Media Outlets A “Woke”

July 15, 2020
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Taking action on even a modest number of these suggestions will undoubtedly shake up the current puerility of much of American theater criticism.

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Performing Arts Series: Stories of Surviving COVID-19 — Non-Event

July 13, 2020
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What lies beyond COVID-19 for the arts community?

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Shelter in Place Attractions: September 6 through 22 — What Will Light Your Home Fires

July 12, 2020
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In the age of COVID-19, Arts Fuse critics have come up with a guide to film, dance, visual art, theater, and music — mostly available by streaming — for the coming weeks. More offerings will be added as they come in.

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Performing Arts Series: Stories of Surviving COVID-19 — New England Conservatory

June 26, 2020
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What lies beyond COVID-19 for the arts community?

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Theater Commentary: A Modest Proposal — Boston Theaters, Junk Your Seasons!

June 10, 2020
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Today’s spirit of protest calls for risk and innovation, dissent and defiance. Our timid stages fall disgracefully short of reflecting that iconoclasm.

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Theater Commentary: The Boston Theater Critics Association — Finally Reached a Conclusion?

June 1, 2020
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The Boston Theater Critics Association should take action in support of #MeToo. But this will probably be the last year I request that Israel Horovitz’s Elliot Norton Prize be withdrawn.

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Theater Interview: Anthony Clarvoe on “The Living” — Surviving Plague Time

May 24, 2020
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The Living “is about the impulse to draw back, to lie, to conceal, and to retreat versus the impulse to gather, to commune, to cooperate, to find common ground. Those two conflicting impulses seem to inform our response to every disaster.”

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Theater Commentary: Why Are America’s Stages Afraid of Dealing with the Climate Crisis?

May 20, 2020
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Those who survive the climate crisis will regard American theater’s current indifference with incredulity and disgust.

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Performing Arts Series: Stories of Surviving COVID-19 — Handel & Haydn Society

May 14, 2020
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“We are in a time that challenges each of us running arts organizations to revisit and reaffirm our institution’s core existential purpose: why are we here? What do we do, and why does it matter?”

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