Bill Marx
The clamor to do justice to 1972 did not cease, so here are salutes to four additional films, The Getaway, Last House on the Left, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, and What’s Up Doc?.
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What will guarantee obsolescence? If members of the BTCA continue to embrace a “whatever is, is right” attitude to Boston’s stage scene.
Personable but bracing, Sea Sick delivers an essential message: not only about the damage that is being done to the oceans, but the horrors that are coming down the pike.
Non-binary people have plenty to be angry about these days, but Burgerz is not an attempt to shock or strike back in anger.
Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
Everyday Life and Other Odds and Ends is admirable because it takes contemporary theater into fresh territory — the slow paralysis of the body and the demands this decline makes on caregivers.
An eclectic round-up of the favorite books of the year from our critics, including some disappointments.
Theater Commentary: “1776” — American Theater Jigs as Democracy Dies?
Maybe I am an alarmist and the rich and powerful know something the rest of us don’t. Perhaps the midterms will not put another nail in the coffin of democracy. Apparently, it will be business as usual for the A.R.T. and other American theaters — until it can’t be.
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