Bill Marx

Theater Review: Zeitgeist Stage Company’s “Exit Strategy” — Tales Out of School

February 23, 2017
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Can the smothered idealism of the teachers be rekindled? Will the school be saved if students and faculty join together?

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Theater Review: “Incident at Vichy” — The Vicissitudes of Guilt

January 23, 2017
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Praxis Stage manages to get Arthur Miller’s message across, and it is a valuable one that must be repeated well beyond the inauguration.

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Theater Review: “A Doll’s House” — Middling Ibsen

January 17, 2017
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This is a thoroughly pedestrian production — wobbly, uninspired, and often downright tedious.

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Arts Review/Commentary: Climate Change and Artistic Derangement

January 3, 2017
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Why haven’t American theater companies dealt seriously with climate change?

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Theater Review: “Fingersmith” — A Complaisant Thriller

December 19, 2016
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Bill Rauch and company keep the superficial contrivances hurtling along at a fast enough pace so we aren’t given much time to think.

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Our End-of-the-Year Appeal — Support Quality Arts Coverage

December 11, 2016
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I ask you to consider contributing to The Arts Fuse so that we can continue to be an indispensible part of the Boston arts landscape.

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Book Interview: Natsume Sōseki — A Century After the Death of a Literary Giant

December 9, 2016
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Maybe finally we’re reaching the Natsume Sōseki moment in the English-speaking world.

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Margaret Weigel, Fuse Visual Arts Critic — Words of Remembrance

December 3, 2016
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There will be a public celebration of Margaret Weigel’s life on December 9 at Medford’s Chevalier Theater.

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Theater Review: Huntington Theatre Company’s “Bedroom Farce” — Sleepytime

November 19, 2016
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There’s nothing here to challenge the status quo, just an amiable ‘sex’ comedy about characters who aren’t getting any.

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Cultural Commentary: Things Get Worse at the Boston Globe and Elsewhere — More Arts Criticism Bites the Dust

November 15, 2016
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Many of today’s arts editors and reviewers embrace a lilliputian vision of arts criticism; they accept a crabbed sense of its possibilities.

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