Bill Marx
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.
May Father Comes Home From the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3) fill the Loeb Drama Center to the brim and then some.
Tristana is Ibsen’s Doll’s House played as a gaunt farce, a vision of feminism as icy egotism rather than individual liberation.
“It’s not depressing to be told that writers and artists are getting screwed. It’s our daily reality.”
“The pain depicted on stage must cut to the bone, inspire a seemingly impossible empathy within me, within the audience.”
“My first order of business is to do a listening tour. I will have the same question for everyone I meet: what do you need to do your work?”
Theodore Dreiser’s The Titan is not the greatest novel about American business, but it is still among the best, an honorable runner-up that turned 100 this year.
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