Bill Marx
Congratulations to the nominees and the awardees.
Had Daniil Kharms’ texts been available at the high tide of the Theater of the Absurd, his plays would be performed alongside those of Samuel Beckett and Eugene Ionesco.
The hope is that general readers and scholars will realize a more rounded comprehension of Jack Kerouac.
This wonder work from Canadian director Robert Lepage isn’t here for much time, alas.
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.
Where are the theaters that are bold enough to stage challenging and risky dramas about race? Not just talk the talk.
After reading the supposedly offensive article in the American Mercury, the judge said: “No one but a moron could be affected by it.”
In 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.
The Lyric Stage is presenting a moving production of Lynn Nottage’s cautionary tale about strength of character tragically misdirected.
Fuse Commentary: Five Minutes With NEA Chairman Jane Chu
God speed Chairman Chu on her mission to make the fine arts less marginalized in a determinedly bottom line culture, obsessed with the pragmatic rather than the imaginative.
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