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Bill Marx

Theater Interview: Anthony Clarvoe on “The Living” — Surviving Plague Time

The Living “is about the impulse to draw back, to lie, to conceal, and to retreat versus the impulse to gather, to commune, to cooperate, to find common ground. Those two conflicting impulses seem to inform our response to every disaster.”

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Anthony Clarvoe, Benny Sato Ambush, COVID-19, Hanife Schulte., Plague, The Living

Theater Commentary: Why Are America’s Stages Afraid of Dealing with the Climate Crisis?

Those who survive the climate crisis will regard American theater’s current indifference with incredulity and disgust.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Theater Tagged: American Theatre Magazine, american-theatre, Climate Crisis, Climate Emergency

Performing Arts Series: Stories of Surviving COVID-19 — Handel & Haydn Society

“We are in a time that challenges each of us running arts organizations to revisit and reaffirm our institution’s core existential purpose: why are we here? What do we do, and why does it matter?”

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music Tagged: David Snead, Handel & Haydn Society, Joe Chambers

Arts Appreciation: Howells in the Dark — William Dean, We Still Hardly Know Ye

A hundred years ago today one of the most influential writers and editors in American history, William Dean Howells, died in Manhattan at the age of 83.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Featured Tagged: William Dean Howells

Performing Arts Series: Stories of Surviving COVID-19 — Boston Baroque

“At Boston Baroque, as we look to the future, we take comfort in knowing that redefining ourselves is in our organization’s DNA.”

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Classical Music, Commentary, Featured Tagged: Boston Baroque, COVID-19, Jennifer Ritvo Hughes, Martin Pearlman

Performing Arts Series: Stories of Surviving COVID-19 — Double Edge Theatre

“We believe the way to move through these times is 6 feet apart and ALL TOGETHER.”

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Theater Tagged: Carlos Uriona, COVID-19, Double Edge Theatre, Jennifer Johnson

Theater Commentary: When the Curtain Falls — Like an Axe

Vibrant, independent theater in Boston and throughout New England will not be sustained if the demolition starts at the bottom and moves up.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Theater Tagged: ArtsBoston, Bill-Marx, Theater Communications Group

Arts Commentary: Pestilence on Stage, Part Two — “When the Impossible Really Begins”

Theater is seen as a cleansing illness that sets out to obliterate the illness we blithely accept as health.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Theater Tagged: Antonin Artaud, Peter Barnes, Plague, Red Noses

Arts Commentary: Pestilence on Stage, Part One — Karel Čapek’s”The White Plague”

The White Plague uses dread to shock us into empathy for ourselves, to be alarmed by the fragility of our bodies as well as the resources and ethics of the medical system.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Theater Tagged: COVID-19, Karel Čapek, The White Plague

Book Commentary: “Pale Horse, Pale Rider” and the Literature of COVID-19

“The body is a curious monster, no place to live in, how could anyone feel at home there? Is it possible I can ever accustom myself to this place?”

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Featured Tagged: 1918 Pandemic, COVID-19, Influenza 1918, John O'Hara, Katharine Anne Porter, Pale Horse Pale Rider, The Doctor's Son

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