Bill Marx
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.
Dramatist Melinda Lopez’s “Becoming Cuba” holds your attention even after you see just where it is going and why.
“Buster Keaton’s imagination and ideas are more surrealistic than Chaplin’s, and his stunts are astonishing in terms of their demanding technique, even today”.
“I love Fats Waller. Fats Waller will always be here because he is simply that magnetic a person(a).”
This is a vaguely threatening day for New Englanders who love their NPR in duplicate.
“Bernard Malamud is the great sentence-maker, the great craftsman, and the sheer quality of those sentences has never perhaps been given its complete due.”
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