Bill Marx

Author Interview: Joan Lancourt on Junior Programs — Pioneers of Theater for Young Audiences

April 14, 2025
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Junior Programs undertook “a visionary rethinking of the potential relationship between the performing arts and the lives of the nation’s children, with the specific artistic innovations emerging organically from that rethinking”.

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Theater Review: “Her Portmanteau” — Unpacking Emotional Baggage

April 4, 2025
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This is the most slickly engaging of Mfoniso Udofia’s scripts so far, its domestic melodrama enlivened by welcome humor, detailed characterizations, and moments of pathos.

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Arts Commentary: Time to Step Off the “Carousel” of Denial

March 31, 2025
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We desperately need plays and musicals — produced by local companies with courage and nerve — that acknowledge that the cancer of autocracy is here, today, and becoming stronger. That is the demand — will any answer the call?

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Author Interview: Roberta Silman — Taking Up “Heart-work”

March 20, 2025
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“Heart-work,” Roberta Silman’s new collection of stories, looks at the knotty intricacies of domestic life.

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Theater Review: “The Inspector” Makes a Wildly Amusing Call

March 19, 2025
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The Russian dramatist’s expansive application of ridicule, his picture of human society as an endless chain of fools fooling fools fooling fools, couldn’t be more fitting — it is a funhouse mirror of our times.

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Arts Commentary: Climate Crisis Cabaret — Marching Orders

March 12, 2025
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Why did I help organize the Climate Crisis Cabaret? Because these are not normal times. And we need more theater like it.

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Theater Review: “Hedda Gabler” — The Pistol Packin’ Charm of the Bourgeoisie

February 26, 2025
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It is always a pleasure to see Ibsen on stage, but this production of one of his masterpieces is generally humdrum.

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Theater Review: “The Grove” — Nurturing Ancestral Connections

February 23, 2025
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Revelatory reunions are a standard dramatic setup, which explains why it takes quite a while for “The Grove” to gather some theatrical steam.

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Theater Review: “Life & Times of Michael K” — Refusing to Be Erased

February 5, 2025
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This moving, at times beautiful, production evokes Michael K’s vision of purity, a rejection of collective cruelty and madness that asserts human dignity’s last stand — as an animal.

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Podcast Interview: Amy Geller and Gerald Peary on Making “The Rabbis Go South”

January 18, 2025
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The Rabbis Go South tells the story of a little-known episode in the fight for desegregation: 16 rabbis were invited by Martin Luther King to be part of the 1964 civil rights march in St. Augustine, Florida.

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