Bill Marx
Lester Bangs insisted that, at its best, rock was an act of pure rebellion, a liberation from the prison of respectability.
The script softens up the issue of patriarchal authoritarianism by plugging it into a family comedy structure.
The ART presents a staid production of Tennessee Williams’ talky chamber play about wanderers struggling to be released from their pain.
Can the smothered idealism of the teachers be rekindled? Will the school be saved if students and faculty join together?
Praxis Stage manages to get Arthur Miller’s message across, and it is a valuable one that must be repeated well beyond the inauguration.
This is a thoroughly pedestrian production — wobbly, uninspired, and often downright tedious.
Why haven’t American theater companies dealt seriously with climate change?
Bill Rauch and company keep the superficial contrivances hurtling along at a fast enough pace so we aren’t given much time to think.
Theater Commentary: “Trumpismo avant la lettre” and the Elliot Norton Awards
Hypnotized by celebrity and the monied class, our stage critics have become a gaggle of cheerleaders, feckless enough to call Diane Paulus a “visionary.”
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