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Theater Commentary: Boston Stages — Running from Reality?

Are our theaters indifferent, craven, or complicit? Take your pick.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Theater Tagged: Andrei Kureichik, Arlekin Players ​Theatre, Living Newspaper

Theater Review: “Seneca Falls” – A History of Women’s Suffrage, Tongue-in-Cheek

The script is not a conventional history of women’s suffrage: dramatic Jean Ann Douglass mobilizes satire, sexuality, suffering, and sarcasm.

By: Melissa Rodman Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Jean Ann Douglass, Jess Chayes, New Play Exchange, Seneca Falls

Theater Commentary: Notes Toward a Definition of Theater, Part One — “Be Bold and Wild”

As we grapple with building the brave new world of live theater in a Covid and post-Covid world, a few stray thoughts.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: 6 Feet Apart All Together, All Together, Double Edge Theatre

Theater Review: “Heroes of the Fourth Turning” – What Lurks in a Zoom-screen Void

The play’s swift running give-and-take is chillingly beguiling, its myriad allusions arousing your curiosity as you consider the characters’ positions and conclusions yourself.

By: Melissa Rodman Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Heroes of the Fourth Turning, Will Arbery

Critical/Theater Commentary: Slapping Sleeping Media Outlets A “Woke”

Taking action on even a modest number of these suggestions will undoubtedly shake up the current puerility of much of American theater criticism.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Theater Tagged: and People of Color, BIPOC, black, Indigenous, theater-criticism, white american theater

Arts Commentary: “Hamilton” — Streaming on Disney Plus,  Feeling Like You’re in the Room Where it Happened.

The opportunity to see the culture-changing Broadway phenomenon Hamilton on Disney Plus, sucked up all the arts oxygen over the Fourth of July weekend.

By: Glenn Rifkin Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Review, Television, Theater Tagged: Disney Plus, Glenn Rifkin, Hamilton, Lin-Manual Miranda

Poetry Review: “Outside” — Poetry and Prose of French Writer André du Bouchet.

Take the poems slowly, enjoy the Cage-y silences, the concentrated words as they appear.

By: Jim Kates Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, Theater, Uncategorized, Video Games, Visual Arts, Webmaster News, World Books Tagged: André du Bouchet, Eric Fishman, French poetry, Hoyt Rogers, Outside

Theater Commentary: A Modest Proposal — Boston Theaters, Junk Your Seasons!

Today’s spirit of protest calls for risk and innovation, dissent and defiance. Our timid stages fall disgracefully short of reflecting that iconoclasm.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Theater Tagged: Boston-theater, George Floyd

Theater Commentary: The Boston Theater Critics Association — Finally Reached a Conclusion?

The Boston Theater Critics Association should take action in support of #MeToo. But this will probably be the last year I request that Israel Horovitz’s Elliot Norton Prize be withdrawn.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Theater Tagged: Don Aucoin, Ed Siegel, Elliot Norton Award Committee, Elliot Norton Prize for Sustained Excellence, Israel Horovitz, Joyce Kulhawik

Theater Interview: Anthony Clarvoe on “The Living” — Surviving Plague Time

The Living “is about the impulse to draw back, to lie, to conceal, and to retreat versus the impulse to gather, to commune, to cooperate, to find common ground. Those two conflicting impulses seem to inform our response to every disaster.”

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Anthony Clarvoe, Benny Sato Ambush, COVID-19, Hanife Schulte., Plague, The Living

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