Bill Marx
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Critic Eric Bentley valued the theater of audacity above all, and that is just what is on glorious display in Trinity Rep’s marvelously nervy A Lie of the Mind.
Lydia R. Diamond’s Smart People is an amusing takedown of our “post-racial” world, and it is receiving a snappy, well-acted production via the Huntington Theatre Company.
We do it for the joy and communitas of making theater together much as we do for responding to the world around us through art.
Tadeusz Różewicz’s best poems are blunt hammer strokes that pound at the impossibility of crafting poetry true to the sins of history.
Is it the Bard or a magic show? The prestidigitation wins out given the wanness of the dramatic proceedings.
Dramatically speaking, Sontag: Reborn fails to treat a flawed iconoclast with the necessary creative playfulness. Hush, Saint Susan Aborning!
It is encouraging to see new plays that tackle substantial social problems.
“Americans have been most drawn to the great tragedies—in our classroom and on our stages. “
“Nothing Like the Sun” remains, for my money, among the best works of fiction inspired by Shakespeare’s life.
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