Bill Marx
Cinematic in inspiration, Diane Paulus’s direction whips up terse bursts of adolescent energy, tapping into a cocky hunger for self-destructive combat.
“It’s not just some generic ‘evil’ “The Arsonists” protests, it is willful blindness to fascist and authoritarian agendas. Denial and hiding behind “bourgeois” comfort is the theme.”
A translator must meet a compelling need — to reinvent Franz Kafka’s voice in an English that resounds in the present moment.
A relaxed, humane kindness shines through this staging of Shakespeare’s hymn to reconciliation.
The Lyric Stage Company’s production of David Henry Hwang’s Obie award-winning play is serviceably absorbing.
The script is representative of the pitfalls of current theatrical minimalism — less can so easily be less.
“We need hope in the possibility of change in order to survive what’s coming.”
If only “Becoming a Man”‘s pathos were less streamlined, its theatricality more ambitious.
Must the stage only discreetly charm the bourgeoisie?
Theater Commentary: Facing Some Hard Truths
The time is overdue for a serious discussion of what is happening (or not happening) in Boston-area theaters. Just don’t expect to see anything in our sheepish mainstream media.
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