Bill Marx
For America to get back on track, “It will take inspired radical leadership, mass organizing, and citizen mobilization of the kind that we see only in America’s finest hours.”
In the spirit of Passover’s four questions, I will ask: Why this play of all plays?
Timon is a fascinating, if lumpy and bumpy, black comedy with a nihilistic sting, a lacerating parable about how the worship of gold warps individuals and society.
The Shadow Whose Prey the Hunter Becomes suggests some marvelous possibilities.
Octavio Solis’ Quixote Nuevo, is a genial, and very American, riff on Don Quixote.
Those who value serious journalism (as well as the rights of journalists) should be quite worried about just how lethally Boston Globe management is attempting to undercut the newspaper’s union.
TRIPTYCH (Eyes of One on Another) serves up a cool emotional package.
At its best, Lauren Yee’s vibrant play with music offers a compelling exploration of survivor guilt, the urge for revenge, the deforming power of the past, and the impossibility of finding justice for crimes against humanity.
Evaluated as an empathy workout, Trayf never asks us to break a sweat.
Critical Commentary: A Few Thoughts about John Simon
Few critics proclaimed that the emperor was naked as a jaybird with as much savvy panache.
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