Bill Marx
Those who want to experience the brilliance of Bertolt Brecht at its mellowest should head down to Yale Rep’s lively and moving production of The Caucasian Chalk Circle.
Read MoreAfter reading the supposedly offensive article in the American Mercury, the judge said: “No one but a moron could be affected by it.”
Read MoreIn 1939, Clifford Odets wrote that ‘we are living at a time when new art works should shoot bullets.” Fat chance of any shots coming from our voluntarily disarmed theaters.
Read MoreThe Lyric Stage is presenting a moving production of Lynn Nottage’s cautionary tale about strength of character tragically misdirected.
Read MoreOver the next two decades, slow-creeping climate change is coming to the arts in America — the arctic ice on which the creative class stands is melting.
Read MoreMay Father Comes Home From the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3) fill the Loeb Drama Center to the brim and then some.
Read MoreTristana is Ibsen’s Doll’s House played as a gaunt farce, a vision of feminism as icy egotism rather than individual liberation.
Read More“It’s not depressing to be told that writers and artists are getting screwed. It’s our daily reality.”
Read More“The pain depicted on stage must cut to the bone, inspire a seemingly impossible empathy within me, within the audience.”
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Theater Commentary: The Irrelevance of ‘Relevant’ Theater
Where are the theaters that are bold enough to stage challenging and risky dramas about race? Not just talk the talk.
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