Bill Marx
The script is symptomatic of the Trump era: a passionate rejection of the “politically correct” pushes warriors for “freedom,” as well as voices of radicalism, into morally despicable positions.
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We need more serious, informed, and diverse voices evaluating and reporting on the arts at a time newspapers and magazines are cutting back and/or dumbing down their arts sections.
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If the New York Times can’t make a reasonable case for the need for discrimination rather than salesmanship, we are in real trouble.
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To my surprise, the auto union was written out of the picture from the start, as if dramatist Dominique Morisseau saw it as an embarrassment.
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Steve is a satisfyingly genial comedy that brings up, but then darts quickly away from, serious issues.
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The White Card‘s examination of white philanthropy and racism stays well within the comfort zone.
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Shange’s nervy mix of wordplay and in-your-face didacticism — of resilience in the face of hardship — is very much the empowering thing.
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A nifty new design for the magazine is on its way …. bear with us.
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Commentary: Once More, Back to the Little Shop of Horovitz
The strategic silences in the Boston Globe’s piece on the legacy of Israel Horovitz are disturbing.
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