Bill Marx

Theater Commentary: Twenty Years Ago — Stonewalling Charges of Sexual Harassment

December 12, 2017
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These articles dramatize, sadly, who was listened to and who wasn’t when sexual allegations were made against playwright Israel Horovitz in the early ’90s.

Theater Review: “Hold These Truths” — A Vital Lesson

December 11, 2017
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Hold These Truths is an invaluable reminder that alternative facts are not a new thing.

Gone Baby Gone — Sebastian Smee Going to the “Washington Post”

December 4, 2017
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More alarming signs that the Boston Globe‘s arts section is shedding talent.

Stage Commentary: “The Boston Globe” to Boston Theater — Drop Dead?

November 28, 2017
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Critics were once seen as the ‘canaries in the mineshaft’ — now newspapers and magazines are closing down the mines.

Theater Review: “Trapped in a Traveling Minstrel Show” — Look Forward in Anger

November 10, 2017
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Sleeping Weazel stages a gutsy production of an angry, ugly, and essential history lesson.

By Request: Out of the Past — Sexual Harassment, Trouble at the Gloucester Stage Company

November 2, 2017
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Let us hope that today’s revelations will be taken more seriously than charges of sexual harassment and assault were back in 1993.

The Fusical is Coming! The Fusical is Coming! On November 16!

October 31, 2017
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Celebrate New England’s unsung cultural movers and shakers as well as the 10th anniversary of The Arts Fuse!

Film/TV Review: “Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive” — A Fresh Look

October 30, 2017
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Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive does an honorable service for the writer who embodied, as well as created, “The Imp of the Perverse.”

Theater Review: “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time”

October 27, 2017
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We are invited to see the world through the eyes of an adolescent whose autism makes human communication and contact incredibly difficult.

Theater Review: A Rousing “Enemy of the People” at Yale Rep

October 20, 2017
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An invigorating staging of Henrik Ibsen’s still pertinent play about spinelessness up and down the political spectrum.

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