Bill Marx
THE ARTS FUSE TURNS TEN! Help sustain substantial critical coverage of the arts.
There are just too many traumas on Hasfari’s checklist, too little time allotted to dramatic depth.
My thought was that it would exciting to invite high school students from diverse backgrounds to become better educated about arts criticism.
Hypnotized by celebrity and the monied class, our stage critics have become a gaggle of cheerleaders, feckless enough to call Diane Paulus a “visionary.”
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?
Theater Commentary: Trump, Julius Caesar, and Political Farce
If the ballyhoo around the Public Theater’s Julius Caesar is a sign of the times, then we have a lot more than Trump to fear.
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