Bill Marx
Recommended hashtags for the Boston Theatre Critics Association: #MeTooGiveMeTime, #MeTooNotYet
Joshua Sobol isn’t interested in exploring dramatic possibilities but making sure his equation about the inevitable mechanics of violence works out.
Albert Camus brings a bracing response to thinking about the worse that is missing in so many of our current dystopias.
Precious few independent online arts publications make it to double digits. Please give us the resources we need to persevere at an essential cultural task.
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.
The strategic silences in the Boston Globe’s piece on the legacy of Israel Horovitz are disturbing.
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.
If the New York Times can’t make a reasonable case for the need for discrimination rather than salesmanship, we are in real trouble.
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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